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Cheiracanthiidae  Wagner, 1887 / Cheiracanthium  C. L. Koch, 1839   33 species

Cheiracanthium campestre Lohmander, 1944

Description
Male

Tip of cymbium approximately 1/4 of cymbium length (without cymbial spur), outer margin of cymbium distinctly extended and forms a robust process laterally above bulbus.  Prosoma length: approximately 2.9 mm.

Body length male: 5.3-6.6 mm
Female

Epigyne with entrance ducts that are convoluted around the receptacula seminis approximately 3.5 times. Prosoma length: approximately 3.3 mm

Body length female: 7.8-8.0 mm
Additional information

in dry meadows

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Sweden, Denmark, Central Europe, Italy, Romania, Ukraine, Russia (Europe)
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Austria   (Komposch & Steinberger, 1999) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Denmark   (Scharff & Gudik-Sørensen, 2006) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Hungary   (Szinetár et al., 2015) ||| Italy   (Steinwandter et al., 2022) ||| Liechtenstein   (Frick, unpubl.) ||| Moldova   (Vasiliev & Mikhailov, 2023) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Central   (Esyunin et al., 2020a) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi & Stäubli, 2012) ||| Ukraine   (Hirna & Zhukovets, 2022) |||
References

Almquist S (2007) Swedish Araneae, part 2 – families Dictynidae to Salticidae. Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 63(2006): 285-601 pdf

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 pdf

Dolanský J (2009) [Contribution to the knowledge of the morphology, phenology and environmental factors of the yellow sac spiders Cheiracanthium virescens (Sundevall, 1833) and Cheiracanthium campestre Lohmander, 1944 (Araneae, Miturgidae)]. Východočeský sborník přírodovědný – Práce a Studie 16: 137-141 pdf

Esyunin S L, Ruchin A B, Agafonova O V (2020a) To the knowledge of the spider fauna (Aranei) of the Republic of Mordovia (Russia). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 16: 3-13 pdf

Frick H (unpubl.) .

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.

Hänggi A, Stäubli A (2012) Nachträge zum „Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen“: 4. Neunachweise von 2002 bis 2011. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 59-76 pdf

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Hirna A, Zhukovets E (2022) Catalogue of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Lviv oblast (Ukraine). National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians, Lviv, 311 pp. pdf

Komposch C, Steinberger K-H (1999) Rote Liste der Spinnen Kärntens (Arachnida: Araneae). Naturschutz in Kärnten 15: 567-616 pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] 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

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 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

Scharff N, Gudik-Sørensen O (2006) Katalog over Danmarks edderkopper (Araneae). Catalogue of the spiders of Denmark (Araneae). Entomologiske Meddelelser 74: 3-71 pdf

Steinwandter M, Spinn J von, Thaler-Knoflach B, Seeber J (2022) Neufunde von Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) für Südtirol und Italien aus dem Obervinschgau. Gredleriana 22: 141-148 pdf

Szinetár C, Kovács P, Eichardt J (2015) [Spiders (Araneae) of the Győr–Gönyű military shooting range]. In: Takács & Szinetár (eds.): [The wildlife of calcareous sand steppe areas in military use in the Hungarian Little Plain] , pp. 237-260 pdf

Vasiliev A I, Mikhailov K G (2023) Annotated checklist of spiders (Araneae) of the Republic of Moldova. Invertebrate Zoology 20: 307-342 pdf

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 pdf

Wolf A (unpubl.)

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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