Clubiona alpicola Kulczyński, 1882
Description
Male palp brown. Tibial apophysis approximately as long as wide. Epigyne with strongly sclerotised median part of posterior margin. Prosoma yellow-brown, with black margin. Chelicerae dark. Legs yellowish. Opisthosoma with median band and brown arched line.
Body length male: 5 mmBody length female: 6 mm
Additional information
In grass heathland under stones and in block fields, Alps, low mountain range, Carpathians and High Sudeten Mountains (Riesengebirge).
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1965b)
Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1965b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler 1981c)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Rozwałka & Stachowicz 2015)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Zamani et al. 2024a)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2024a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2024a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2024a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Robin-Havret et al. 2024b)
Tibial apophysis
(Thaler 1981c)
Epigyne
(Blick et al. 1995)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1965b)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Schenkel 1925)
Epigyne
(Zamani et al. 2024a)
Epigyne
(Robin-Havret et al. 2024b)
Vulva, ventral view
(Blick et al. 1995)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Blick et al. 1995)
Vulva, ventral view
(Thaler 1981c)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Thaler 1981c)
Vulva
(Wiehle 1965b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Zamani et al. 2024a)
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
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) 
Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510
Blick T, Fischer J, Molenda R, Weiss I (1995) Nachweise von Clubiona alpicola in Deutschland und Tschechien (Araneida, Clubionidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 9: 26-35
Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.
Hirna A, Gnelitsa V, Zhukovets E (2016) A checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of the Chornohora Mountain massif (Ukrainian Carpathians). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 16-38
Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204
Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12
Nuruyeva T, Zamani A (2025) An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan. Zootaxa 5680: 1-168
Robin-Havret V, Isaia M, Bosmans R, Ponel P, Caron N, Hénon N, Delzons O (2024b) Confirmation de la présence de Clubiona alpicola Kulczyński, 1882 (Araneae, Clubionidae) en France et synthèse des données actuelles. Revue Arachnologique (2) 11: 4-8
Rozwałka R, Stachowicz J (2015) The first record of Clubiona saxatilis C.L. Koch, 1867 (Araneae: Clubionidae) in Poland. Fragmenta Faunistica 58: 59-63
Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html
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
Schenkel E (1925) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der schweizerischen Spinnenfauna. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 32: 253-318
Thaler K (1981c) Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde in Nordtirol (Österreich) (Arachnida: Aranei). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 61: 105-150
Thaler K (1997c) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 4: Dionycha (Anyphaenidae, Clubionidae, Heteropodidae, Liocranidae, Philodromidae, Salticidae, Thomisidae, Zoridae). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 77: 233-285
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
Wiehle H (1965b) Die Clubiona - Arten Deutschlands, ihre natürliche Gruppierung und die Einheitlichkeit im Bau ihrer Vulva (Arach., Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 46: 471-505
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Zamani A, Esyunin S L, Mikhailov K G, Marusik Y M (2024a) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part XI. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10: 285-309