Collinsia spetsbergensis (Thorell, 1871)
Description
Male
Prosoma unmodified. Opisthosoma without scutum, dark, without pattern. Palp with long transparent tapering lamella. Tibial apophysis sharp. Paracymbium simple, smaller than tibia.
Body length male: 1.8-2 mmFemale
Opisthosoma without scutum. Prosoma unmodified. Epigyne with long transverse furrow and lack of median furrow. Pre-epigastric field unmodified.
Body length female: 2-2.4 mmAdditional information
In Scandinavia exclusively in lichen vegetation above 1400 m altitude. In Ellesmere Island specimens were found in river deltas with fine, muddy sand covered with dense Equisetum and some Salix.
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Agnarsson 1996)
Pedipalp
(Breuss 2004)
Pedipalp
(Breuss 2004)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Aadland unpubl.)
Embolic division
(Holm 1958b)
Paracymbium
(Holm 1958b)
Tegular apophysis
(Holm 1958b)
Palpal tibia
(Breuss 2004)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Agnarsson 1996)
Epigyne
(Agnarsson 1996)
Epigyne
(Breuss 2004)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva
(Breuss 2004)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Distribution List
References
Aadland, B. (unpubl.) .
Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 
Agnarsson I (1996) Íslenskar köngulær Fjölrit Náttúrufræðistofnunar 31: 1-175
Breuss W (2004) Eine Ausbeute von Spinnen (Arachnida, Araneae) von Franz-Josef-Land (Russland). In Thaler, K. (ed.), Diversität und Biologie von Webspinnen, Skorpionen under anderen Spinnentieren. Denisia 12: 535-545
Holm Å (1958b) The spiders of the Isfjord region of Spitsbergen. Zoologiska Bidrag från Uppsala 33: 29-67
Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001]
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Tanasevitch A V (2017b) Spiders (Aranei) of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago and the Vaygach Island, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 26: 145-153
Tanasevitch A V (2018) New data on spiders (Aranei) from the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago and Siberian Arctic, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 27: 69-71
WSC (2022) World Spider Catalog. Version 23.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (21.07.2022) doi: 10.24436/2