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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Neriene  Blackwall, 1833   7 species

Neriene emphana  (Walckenaer, 1841)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011982

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Description

Male palp yellow-brown, lamella large and broad. Cymbium light brown. Epigyne with 2 depressions in anterior part. Prosoma yellowish to light brown, with weak grey median band from eyes to fovea and diffuse grey lateral band. Sternum dark brown to black. Chelicerae light brown, males: orange-brown. Legs yellowish to light brown, Metatarsus and Tarsus light brown. Opisthosoma with 4 black transverse stripes dorsally in posterior third, white in remaining area.

Body length male: 3.6-4 mm
Body length female: 4-6.5 mm
Additional information

In forests on twigs of trees

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2019): Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Dawson & Merrett 2002)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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male Pedipalp
(Dawson & Merrett 2002)

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male Habitus, dorsal view
(Bosselaers unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne
(Dawson & Merrett 2002)

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female Vulva
(Wiehle 1956)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Dawson & Merrett 2002)

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Habitus, dorso-lateral view
(Wiehle 1956)

References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018)

Bosselaers J (unpubl.)

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

Dawson I K, Merrett P (2002) Neriene emphana (Walckenaer, 1841), a linyphiid spider new to Britain (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bull Br arachnol Soc 12: 295-296

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Otto S (2017) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 08.2017. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Isaia M (2018) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version June 2018). online at http://www.museoscienzebergamo.it/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=96&Itemid=94 pdf

Wiehle H (1956) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, X. 28: Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen. Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1-337

World Spider Catalog (2019) World Spider Catalog, version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.01.2019) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates
09-11-2015 Image insert