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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Lessertia  Smith, 1908   2 species

Lessertia dentichelis  (Simon, 1884)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011343

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Description

Tibial apophysis hook-shaped. Embolus convoluted. Prosoma yellowish to light brown. Opisthosoma yellowish to light brown.

Body length male: 2.6-3.5 mm
Body length female: 2.6-4 mm
Additional information

Species with preference for humidity, originally in natural caves of western Mediterranean region. Anthropogenic introduction is possible

Troglophile species (Mammola et al. 2018)

Frequency: Widely distributed

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2022): Canary Is., Madeira, Europe, Turkey. Introduced to Canada, New Zealand
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1960a)

species

male Pedipalp
(Kronestedt 1992)

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male Pedipalp
(Roberts 1987)

species

male Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

species

male Tibial apophysis
(Wiehle 1960a)

species

male Tibial apophysis
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

species

male Chelicera
(Wiehle 1960a)

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female Epigyne
(Wiehle 1960a)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

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female Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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female Vulva
(Kronestedt 1992)

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female Vulva
(Wiehle 1960a)

Distribution List
Austria   (no references) ||| Belgium   (no references) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Czechia   (no references) ||| Denmark   (no references) ||| France   (no references) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Lithuania   (no references) ||| Luxembourg   (Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| Netherlands   (no references) ||| Northern Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Poland   (no references) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2021a) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Biteniekytė M, Rėlys V (2012) The checklist of Lithuanian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Biologija 57: 148-158 pdf

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) pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2021a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2021 [last updated 1 January 2021], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

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 pdf

Kronestedt T (1992) Lessertia dentichelis - en för Sverige ny dvärgspindel i Stockholms tunnelbana. Fauna och flora 87: 50-55 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

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

Mammola S, Cardoso P, Ribera C, Pavlek M, Isaia M (2018b) A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe. Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 56: 301-316 pdf

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 pdf

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

Wiehle H (1960a) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae). XI. Micryphantidae-Zwergspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 47: 1-620 pdf

WSC (2022) World Spider Catalog. Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (21.01.2022) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
12-05-2020 Distribution insert Detail
30-09-2015 Distribution update Detail