Mangora acalypha (Walckenaer, 1802)
Description
Prosoma light greenish, with black margin and median stripe. Sternum almost black. Legs yellowish. Tibia III with 2 rows of plumose trichobothria. Opisthosoma whitish yellow, rarely greenish, posteriorly with 3 rows of black spots followed by longitudinal stripes, remaining pattern irregular, mostly consisting of longitudinal stripes. Ventrally black with 2 pairs of large, yellow spots.
Body length male: 3-3.5 mmBody length female: 5.5-6 mm
Additional information
On grass and herbs near the ground, mostly in warm, sunny localities
Frequency: Frequent, rare in the mountains
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azheganova 1968)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1995)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wiehle 1931)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Loksa 1972)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Tegular apophysis
(Loksa 1972)
Epigyne
(Azheganova 1968)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1931)
Epigyne
(Loksa 1972)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Epigyne
(Crespo et al. 2009b)
Tibia III with trichobothria
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Habitus
(Loksa 1972)
Tibia III
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Tibia
(Loksa 1972)
Opisthosoma, lateral view
(Wiehle 1931)
Habitus
(Azheganova 1968)
Habitus
(Wiehle 1931)
Habitus
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
References
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Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152 
Crespo L C, Cardoso P, Henriques S, Gaspar C (2009b) Spiders (Araneae) from Porto Santo (Madeira, Portgal): Additions to the current knowledge. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 45: 471-475
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2019) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2018 [last updated 1 January 2019], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Fritzén N R, Koponen S, Pajunen T (2015) Mangora acalypha new to Finland, with notes on other araneid species spreading northwards (Araneae, Araneidae). Memoranda Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 91: 33-36
Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin
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
Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British Spiders 2. Ray Soc London
Loksa I (1972) Pokok II-Araneae II. Fauna Hungariae 109: 3.1-3.112
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
Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110
Roberts M J (1995) Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe. Collins Field Guide Bath
Wiehle H (1931) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VI. 27: Familie Araneidae. Tierwelt Deutschlands 23
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
| 02-02-2017 | Image insert | |
| 28-12-2015 | Distribution update | Old value |