Centromerus dilutus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875)
Description
Male palp with long lamella, distally provided with fine denticles. Epigyne light yellowish, with long, slender scapus, reaching to centre of opisthosoma. Prosoma yellow-brown, margin and radial stripes darker. Sternum yellowish, with a blackish tinge, margin black. Chelicerae yellowish. Legs yellowish. Opisthosoma almost black, sometimes with pattern consisting of brighter longitudinal stripes.
Body length male: 1-1.3 mmBody length female: 1.25-2 mm
Additional information
in moss and leaf litter of forests and bogs
Frequency: Rarely found
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Miller 1958a)
Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1956)
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1987)
Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Femur I, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Tibia I
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Metatarsus I, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Miller 1958a)
Epigyne
(Miller 1958a)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1956)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Epigyne, lateral view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Epigyne
(Locket et al. 1974)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Distribution List
References
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Hermann E (1998) Die Spinnen (Araneae) ausgewählter Halbtrockenrasen im Osten Luxemburgs. Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes Luxembourgeois 99: 189-199
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Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp.
Locket G H, Millidge A F, Merrett P (1974) British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp.
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Miller F (1958a) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der tschechoslovakischen Spinnenarten aus der Gattung Centromerus Dahl. Časopis Československé Společnosti Entomologické 55: 71-91
Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp.
Wiehle H (1956) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, X. 28: Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1-337
WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (03.01.2021) doi: 10.24436/2