Metopobactrus ascitus (Kulczyński, 1894)
Description
Distal margin of palpal tibia with a long, slightly projecting tooth-lamella. Prosoma dirty brown with indistinct grey-brown pattern. Sternum brown. Legs reddish yellow; Coxae light yellow. Opisthosoma dorsally blackish with symmetric spots and points, posteriorly with lighter chevrons.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Miller 1944)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Miller 1971)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Tanasevitch 2023)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Tanasevitch 2023)
Embolic division
(Tanasevitch 2023)
Embolic division
(Tanasevitch 2023)
Embolic division
(Tanasevitch 2023)
Suprategular apophysis, lateral view
(Tanasevitch 2023)
Tibial apophysis
(Miller 1944)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Miller 1971)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Tanasevitch 2023)
Vulva
(Miller 1944)
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(Tanasevitch 2023)
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.
References
Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.
Grbić G, Hänggi A, Savić D (2015) New faunistic records of spiders (Arachnida, Areneae [sic]) from the Fruška Gora mountain, northern Serbia. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 67: 479-486 
Miller F (1944) Abacoproeces ascitus Kulczynski (Araneae). Entomologické Listy, Brno 7: 13-15
Miller F (1971) Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html
Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
Tanasevitch A V (2023) New records of linyphiid spiders of the Caucasus and Crimea, Russia (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 32: 518-526
Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 02-10-2025 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 31-01-2024 | Image insert | |
| 24-10-2017 | Image insert |