Anyphaenidae  Bertkau, 1878 / Anyphaena  Sundevall, 1833   6 species

Anyphaena sabina  L. Koch, 1866

Description
Male

Chelicerae moderately strong with tree teeth in the outer end up to six teeth in the inner row. Labium, much longer than broad, reaching further than mid-point of maxillae. Legs with scopulae on tarsi and apical half of metatarsi I and II. pedipalp with brushes of stridulating hairs. Conductor is wide, terminal apophysis thick and strong. Tibial apophysis hook like, with rounded tip.

prosoma length: 2.6 mm, prosoma width: 2.2 mm.

Body length male: 5.5-6.5 mm
Female

Chelicerae moderately strong with tree teeth in the outer and up to six teeth in the inner row. Labium, much longer than broad, reaching further than mid-point of maxillae. Legs with scopulae on tarsi and apical half of metatarsi I and II. Epigyne wider than long.

prosoma length: 2.5 mm, prosoma width: 2.2 mm.

Body length female: 7.0-9.5 mm
Additional information

On leaves of trees and bushes.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Britain, southern Europe, Algeria, Turkey, Russia (Europe), Caucasus
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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.

Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Algeria   (Habita et al., 2022; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Andorra   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Russia, Central   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Mikhailov, 2013) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Febrer & Barrientos, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019; Wilson, 2015) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

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

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 pdf

Febrer J B, Barrientos J A (2022) Ocho primeras citas de arañas (Araneae) para Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 40: 137-144 pdf

Habita A, Benhalima S, Kherbouche-Abrous O, Bosmans R, Brague-Bouragba N, Guezoul O (2022) Distribution of the genus Anyphaena in the Western Mediterranean region, with the first record of Anyphaena alboirrorata in the Maghreb (Araneae: Anyphaenidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 63: 19-23 pdf

Harvey P (2017a) The buzzing spider Anyphaena sabina L. Koch, new to Essex. The buzzing spider Anyphaena numida Simon, new to Britain. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 140: 18-20 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. 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). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Urones C, Barrientos J A, Espuny A (1995) El género Anyphaena Sundevall, 1833 (Araneae: Anyphaenidae) el la Península Ibérica. Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología 19: 109-131 pdf

Wilson R (2015) Philodromus buxi and Anyphaena sabina: two new records for the UK. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 132: 17-19 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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