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Amaurobiidae  Thorell, 1870 / Amaurobius  C. L. Koch, 1837   38 species

Amaurobius strandi  Charitonov, 1937

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022628

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Description

Tibial apophysis with median process, stretched, straight. Vulva with entrance ducts almost rectangularly bent laterally on posterior end. Prosoma yellow-brown, female: with dark brown head region. Sternum yellow-brown. Chelicerae brown. Legs yellow-brown, to brown. Opisthosoma yellow-grey with dark grey pattern.

Body length male: 3.95-6.25 mm
Body length female: 6.5-8 mm
Additional information

In litter of deciduous trees and amongst grass

Frequency: Not frequent

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2021): Greece, Bulgaria, Ukraine
in autumn, winter and spring, most records in April and October
Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Kovblyuk 2002a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kovblyuk 2002a)

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male Pedipalp
(Kovblyuk 2002a)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998d)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998d)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998d)

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male Tibia
(Kovblyuk 2002a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Kovblyuk 2002a)

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female Epigyne, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk 2002a)

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female Epigyne
(van Helsdingen et al. 2018)

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female Vulva
(van Helsdingen et al. 2018)

Distribution List
Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2020) ||| Ukraine   (no references) |||
References

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

Helsdingen P J van, IJland S, Komnenov M (2018) Inventory of the spiders (Araneae) of the border region of northern Greece with Albania and FYR Macedonia. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 37: 5-23 pdf

Kovblyuk M M (2002a) Redescription of Amaurobius strandi Charitonov, 1937, stat.n. from the Crimea (Aranei: Amaurobiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 10: 213-216 pdf

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

Thaler K, Knoflach B (1998d) Two new species and new records of the genus Amaurobius (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) from Greece. In Selden, P. A. (ed.), Proceedings of the 17th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Edinburgh 1997. Edinburgh, pp. 107-114 pdf

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 pdf

Updates
17-03-2018 Image insert