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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Centromerus  Dahl, 1886   65 species

Centromerus dilutus  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009734

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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 mm
Body 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
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2019): Europe
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Miller 1958a)

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male Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1956)

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male Pedipalp
(Roberts 1987)

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male Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Femur I, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Tibia I
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Metatarsus I, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Miller 1958a)

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female Epigyne
(Miller 1958a)

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female Epigyne
(Wiehle 1956)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

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female Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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female Epigyne
(Locket et al. 1974)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

References

Barrientos J A, Febrer B (2017) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 8-24 pdf

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

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

Lissner J, Jensen J-K, Hansen L J, Simonsen W, Kelduni R, Nissen K (2016b) An updated checklist of spiders (Araneae) of the Faroe Islands. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 63: 197-240 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British Spiders 2. Ray Soc London

Locket G H, Millidge A F, Merrett P (1974) British Spiders 3. Ray Soc London

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Miller F (1958a) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der tschechoslovakischen Spinnenarten aus der Gattung Centromerus Dahl. Acta Soc Entomol Cechoslov 55 (1): 71-91

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

Wiehle H (1956) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, X. 28: Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen. Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1-337

World Spider Catalog (2019) World Spider Catalog, version 20.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.09.2019) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates
30-12-2017 Distribution update Old value
05-11-2013 Image insert
30-04-2013 Image insert