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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Semljicola  Strand, 1906   10 species

Semljicola angulatus (Holm, 1963)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012604

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Description
Male

Male palp with apical broad groove on tibia.
Prosoma brown, with black pattern. Sternum black-brown. Chelicerae light brown. Legs yellowish. Opisthosoma dark grey.

Body length male: 1.8 mm
Female

Epigyne with uniformly triangular median plate. 

Body length female: 1.9 mm
Additional information

in sphagnum of moor, on humid meadows.

 

Figure of vulva (Fig. 4a) by Holm (1945) shows S. angulatus instead of S. lapponicus (Løvbrekke pers. comm., contra Platnick (2013))

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Scandinavia, Russia (Europe to Far East), Mongolia
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Saaristo & Eskov 1996)

species

male Pedipalp
(Saaristo & Eskov 1996)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

male Tip of pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

male Tip of pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

male Tibial apophysis
(Holm 1963)

species

male Tibial apophysis, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

male Prosoma, lateral view
(Holm 1963)

species

male Habitus
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Epigyne
(Holm 1963)

species

female Epigyne
(Saaristo & Eskov 1996)

species

female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Vulva
(Holm 1963)

species

female Vulva
(Holm 1945)

species

female Vulva
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Habitus
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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.

Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Northern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 pdf

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp. pdf

Holm Å (1945) Zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna des Torneträskgebietes. Arkiv för Zoologi 36(A15): 1-80 pdf

Holm Å (1963) Spiders of the genus Eboria Falc. (Araneae: Erigonidae). Entomologisk Tidskrift 84: 266-281 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

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Saaristo M I, Eskov K Y (1996) Taxonomy and zoogeography of the hypoarctic erigonine spider genus Semljicola (Araneida, Linyphiidae). Acta Zoologica Fenninca 201: 47-69 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
14-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
13-02-2025 Image insert
24-07-2024 Image insert
26-04-2017 Image insert