Anyphaenidae  Bertkau, 1878 / Anyphaena  Sundevall, 1833   6 species

Anyphaena sabina L. Koch, 1866

Beschreibung
Männchen

Cheliceren mittelmässig kräftig, mit  bis zu 6  Zähnchen am Vorder- und 3 am Hinterrand. Labium viel länger als breit, reicht weiter als bis zur Mitte der Maxillen. Beine mit Scopulae an den Tarsen und distaler Hälfte der Metatarsen I und II. Pedipalpus mit Büscheln von Stridulationshaaren. Konduktor breit, Terminalapophyse dick und stark gebaut, Tibialapophyse hakenförmig, mit gerundeter Spitze.

Prosomalänge: 2.6 mm, Prosomabreite: 2.2 mm.

Körperlänge Männchen: 5.5-6.5 mm
Weibchen

Cheliceren mittelmässig kräftig, mit  bis zu 6  Zähnchen am Vorder- und 3 am Hinterrand. Labium viel länger als breit, reicht weiter als bis zur Mitte der Maxillen. Beine mit Scopulae an den Tarsen und distaler Hälfte der Metatarsen I und II. Epigyne breiter als lang.

Prosomalänge: 2.5 mm, Prosomabreite: 2.2 mm.

Körperlänge Weibchen: 7.0-9.5 mm
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Verbreitung
  Vorkommen
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Weltweite Verbreitung (WSC 2026): Britain, southern Europe, Algeria, Turkey, Russia (Europe), Caucasus
Abbildungen
Verbreitungsnachweise
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   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Malta   (Rehfeldt & Cassar, 2024) ||| 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., 2025a) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019; Wilson, 2015) |||
Literatur

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