Floronia bucculenta (Clerck, 1757)
Description
Cymbium with pointed protrusion at base. Paracymbium huge. Epigyne transverse oval with large scapus. Prosoma yellow-brown, with broad, often separated median stripe, margin broad, dark brown. Male: head region elevated hemispherically. Sternum dark brown. Chelicerae red-brown, with 4-5 short, robust teeth on anterior cheliceral furrow margin. Legs yellow-brown, sometimes vaguely annulated. Opisthosoma highly elevated (length = height), with irregular pattern consisting of grey and white spots on white ground, ventrally with dark longitudinal band.
Body length male: 4.5-5.0 mmBody length female: 4.5-5.0 mm
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1956)
Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1956)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1987)
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1998)
Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Zhou et al. 2023)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zhou et al. 2023)
Palpal tibia and patella
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Roberts 1987)
Prosoma
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1998)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, dorsal view
(Zhou et al. 2023)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Zhou et al. 2023)
Vulva
(Wiehle 1956)
Eyes, frontal view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Femur I, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Tibia I, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Wiehle 1956)
Prosoma, frontal view
(Wiehle 1956)
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.
References
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Blagoev G (2002) Check list of Macedonian spiders (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 54: 9-34
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)
Blick T (2018) A small collection of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the River Vjosa, Albania – with an updated spider checklist of Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 213-232
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Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152
Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144
Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311
Komnenov M (2010) Checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uzizaž i Biospeld 5(2009): 52-69
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
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
Kreuels M, Staudt A, Christian S (2019) Die Spinnenfauna von Luxemburg – eine Zusammenstellung der Nachweise aus den Jahren 1906-2018 (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 121: 203-230
Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001]
Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212
Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp.
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna].
Moscaliuc L A (2012) New faunistic records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Dobruja (Romania and Bulgaria). Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 55: 9-15
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Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp.
Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.
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Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
Vrenozi B (2012) A collection of spiders (Araneae) in Albanian coastal areas. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 41-46
Wiehle H (1956) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, X. 28: Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1-337
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
Zhou G C, Du W F, Xu C X, Irfan M (2023) A new species of Floronia Simon, 1887 from Baiyan Cave in Guizhou Province, China (Araneae, Linyphiidae). ZooKeys 1185: 309-319
Updates
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| 04-12-2023 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 30-05-2023 | Distribution update | Detail |
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| 08-06-2020 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 26-05-2020 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 12-05-2020 | Distribution insert | Detail |
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| 01-12-2013 | Distribution update | Detail |