Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Erigone  Audouin, 1826   27 species

Erigone autumnalis  Emerton, 1882

Description

Male palp with projecting patellar apophysis. Epigyne only posteriorly with transverse folds. Prosoma with high contrast black eye field. Sternum slightly blackish. Opisthosoma slightly blackish.

Body length male: 1.2-1.5 mm
Body length female: 1.4-1.7 mm
Additional information

Probably North- and Central American species originally, widely dispersed by wind drift (Antarctic (?), Azores). In Switzerland only in Tessin.

This species of North American origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe at least once and did establish.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Georgia (Marusik pers. comm. 2014)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): North and Central America. Introduced to Azores, Europe, Russia (Caucasus), United Arab Emirates, New Caledonia, Hawaii
Phenology
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apparently adult all the year round
Figures
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.

Austria   (no references) ||| Czechia   (Machač & Dolanský, 2020; Řezáč et al., 2021; Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France   (no references) ||| Georgia   (Marusik, unpubl.) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev et al., 2022) ||| Slovenia   (Kuralt & Kostanjšek, 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (no references) |||
References

Bellvert A, Domènech M, Cabrera-Cánoves P, Pujade-Villar J (2018) First record of Erigone autumnalis Emerton, 1882 (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae) for the Iberian Peninsula. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 33: 73-74 pdf

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

Déjean S, Danflous S (2017) Erigone autumnalis Emerton 1882 (Araneae, Linyphiidae), nouvelle espèce pour la faune de France. Revue Arachnologique (2) 4: 14-17 pdf

Hänggi A (1993) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna des Kantons Tessin IV - Weitere faunistisch bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde der Tessiner Montanstufe. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 66: 303-316 pdf

Kuralt Ž, Kostanjšek R (2019) A contribution to the Slovenian spider fauna – IV. Natura Sloveniae 21: 21-45 pdf

Machač O, Dolanský J (2020) Pavouci České republiky [Spiders of the Czech Republic]. Pavouk 49: 2-3 pdf

Marusik Y M (unpubl.) .

Milasowszky N, Hepner M, Komposch C, Zulka K P (2016) Erstnachweise von Drassyllus vinealis (KulczyńsKi, 1897) und Erigone autumnalis Emerton, 1882 (Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Linyphiidae) in Österreich. Beiträge zur Entomofaunistik 17: 163-167 pdf

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

Pesarini C (1996) Note su alcuni Erigonidae italiani, con descrizione di una nuova specie (Araneae). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 135: 413-429 pdf

Ponomarev A V, Chumachenko Y A, Shmatko V Y (2022) The first data about spider fauna (Aranei) of dendrological park "Yuzhnye Cultury" (Adler, Krasnodar Territory, Russia). Field Biologist Journal 4: 137-152 pdf

Řezáč M, Růžička V, Hula V, Dolanský J, Machač O, Roušar A (2021) Spiders newly observed in Czechia in recent years – overlooked or invasive species? BioInvasions Records 10: 555-566 pdf

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 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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