araneae - Argyroneta aquatica

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Argyroneta aquatica (Clerck, 1757)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021318

Description

Prosoma dark brown. Sternum dark brown. Chelicerae dark brown. Legs dark brown. Opisthosoma dark grey-brown to black. In living specimens opisthosoma and sternum shining silver due to attached air. Whole body covered with dense, specialized hairs, that are especially long and partly occur in tufts on leg IV.

Body length male: 10-15 mm
Body length female: 8-9 mm

Additional information

Big water spider, similar to Agelenidae, that lives in clean, densely overgrown still waters and that leaves the water only exceptionally. Builds several retreats filled with air under water and an irregular web, swims very well, ventral side upwards.

There are a few older and unverified reports that this spider can bite humans. Given its size, this is in principle possible, however there is no recent published information of a verified spider bite.

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2020): Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan

Phenology



Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Figures

Pedipalp
(Azheganova 1968)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(de Blauwe 1973)

Pedipalp
(de Blauwe 1973)

Pedipalp
(Roberts 1995)

Pedipalp
(Loksa 1969)

Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Epigyne
(Dahl 1937)

Epigyne
(de Blauwe 1973)

Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)

Epigyne
(Loksa 1969)

Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Vulva
(Azheganova 1968)

Vulva
(Dahl 1937)

Opisthosoma, ventral view
(Roberts 1995)

Leg I and IV
(Roberts 1995)

Distribution List

Austria (no references) ||| Belarus (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Belgium (no references) ||| Bosnia and Herzegovina (Komnenov, 2010) ||| Bulgaria (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia (no references) ||| Czechia (no references) ||| Denmark (no references) ||| Estonia (no references) ||| Finland (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France (no references) ||| Georgia (Otto, 2020) ||| Germany (no references) ||| Hungary (no references) ||| Ireland (no references) ||| Italy (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Latvia (Cera, 2018) ||| Liechtenstein (no references) ||| Lithuania (no references) ||| Moldova (no references) ||| Montenegro (no references) ||| Netherlands (no references) ||| North Macedonia (no references) ||| Northern Ireland (no references) ||| Norway (no references) ||| Poland (no references) ||| Romania (no references) ||| Russia, Central (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern (no references) ||| Russia, Kaliningrad Region (no references) ||| Russia, Northern (no references) ||| Russia, Southern (Otto, 2020) ||| Russia, Western (no references) ||| Serbia (no references) ||| Slovakia (no references) ||| Slovenia (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Sweden (no references) ||| Switzerland (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia) (Danışman et al., 2019) ||| Ukraine (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) ||| United Kingdom (no references) |||

References

Azheganova N S (1968) Kratkii opredelitel' paukov (Aranei) lesnoi i lesostepnoi zony SSSR. Akademia Nauk SSSR, 149pp.

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)

Blauwe R de (1973) Revision de la famille des Agelenidae (Araneae) de la région Mediterranéenne. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 49(2): 1-111

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae).
[N.B.: few records from this paper are not taken over and not commented] Zootaxa 4614: 201-254

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

Dahl M (1937) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VIII: Hahniidae, Argyronetidae. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 100-118

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2019) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2019 [last updated 1 June 2019], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info

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

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

Loksa I (1969) Pokok I-Araneae I. Fauna Hungariae 97: 1-133

Nentwig W, Gnädinger M, Fuchs J, Ceschi A (2013) A two year study of verified spider bites in Switzerland and a review of the European spider bite literature. Toxicon 73: 104-110

Otto S (2020) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 03.2020. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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). http://araneae.it. 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

Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.

World Spider Catalog (2020) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.03.2020) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates

08-06-2020	Distribution update	Detail
01-12-2013	Distribution update	Detail
26-11-2013	Datasheet update	Detail