Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Erigone  Audouin, 1826   27 species

Erigone welchi  Jackson, 1911

Description
Male

Prosoma and sternum dark reddish-brown. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma pale brown. Palp: Femur with series of 3-4 very long teeth, each with one hair. Distinct patellar and tibial apophyses. Prosoma length: 1.5 mm.

Body length male: 2-2.5 mm
Female

Prosoma and sternum dark reddish-brown. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma pale brown. Epigyne variable. Posterior border forms a characteristically shaped ridge.

Body length female: 2-2.5 mm
Additional information

Mainly in damp habitats

Frequency: Rarely found

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Ireland, Britain, Scandinavia, Estonia, Latvia
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Estonia   (Mikhailov, 2013) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France  Removed (Le Peru, 2007; Danflous et al., 2020b) ||| Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Latvia   (Cera, 2018) ||| Moldova  Removed (Mikhailov, 2013; Danflous et al., 2020b) ||| Norway   (Farlund, 2019) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152 pdf

Danflous S, Déjean S, Guerbaa K, Jacquet C, Lecigne S, Montagne D, Montardi Y, Villepoux O (2020b) De araneis Galliae IV. Actualisation du référentiel des araignées de France – première note. Espèces absentes de France ou mises en nomen dubium. Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 5: 10-32 pdf

Farlund M (2019) Norwegian Spiders - Norske edderkopper. Siste oppdatering for funn av nye arter 10. oktober, 2019. Online at http://crocea.wordpress.com/norsk-artsliste/ pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp. pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp. pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
05-10-2020 Distribution update Detail
03-02-2019 Distribution update Detail
22-05-2018 Image insert
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail
26-02-2014 Distribution update Detail