Agyneta cauta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903)
Description
Male
Paracymbium basally without tooth. Prosoma reddish brown, margin darkened. Sternum red-brown. Chelicerae without denticles. Legs brown, tibia and metatarsus darker. Opisthosoma almost black.
Body length male: 2-3 mmFemale
Epigyne with median plate furcated V-like posteriorly (arrow). Note the height of the visible part of the epigynal entrance duct compared to A. decora.
Body length female: 2-3 mmAdditional information
in humid moss, in forest edges and in bogs.
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Hippa & Oksala 1985)
Pedipalp
(Hippa & Oksala 1985)
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1987)
Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Lamella characteristica
(Hippa & Oksala 1985)
Lamella characteristica
(Jäger 1995a)
Lamella characteristica
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Cymbium, prolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Roberts 1987)
Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1956)
Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Pedipalp
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Morka unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Hippa & Oksala 1985)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva
(Wiehle 1956)
Vulva, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva, expanded, posterior view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Morka unpubl.)
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
Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 
Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244
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)
Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69
Bosselaers J (2018) Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Gavarres (Catalonia, Spain) and the adjacent coastal region - part I: 2012-2013. Newsletter of the Belgian arachnological Society 33(Suppl.): 1-103
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152
Hippa H, Oksala I (1985) A review of some holarctic Agyneta Hull s. str. (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 6: 277-288
Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311
Jäger P (1995a) Faunistische Untersuchungen an Spinnen (Araneae) der Wahner Heide (Nordrhein-Westfalen) mit Anmerkungen zur Biologie und Taxonomie. Diplomarbeit, Zoologisches Institut, Universität zu Köln
Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267
Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm
Kreuels M, Staudt A, Christian S (2019) Die Spinnenfauna von Luxemburg – eine Zusammenstellung der Nachweise aus den Jahren 1906-2018 (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 121: 203-230
Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001]
Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212
Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp.
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Morka G H (unpubl.)
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
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
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.
Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp.
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
Vilbaste A (1987) Eesti Ämblikud (Aranei). Annoteeritud nimestik. Estonian spiders (Aranei). An annotated check list. Valgus, Tallinn. 113 pp. & 512 maps on 67 unpag. pages
Wiehle H (1956) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, X. 28: Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1-337
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
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