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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Agyneta  Hull, 1911   43 species

Agyneta cauta  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009356

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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 mm
Female

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 mm
Additional information

in humid moss, in forest edges and in bogs. Most frequent Agyneta-species

Frequency: Widely distributed

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2020): Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kyrgyzstan
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Hippa & Oksala 1985)

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male Pedipalp
(Hippa & Oksala 1985)

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male Pedipalp
(Roberts 1987)

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male Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Lamella characteristica
(Hippa & Oksala 1985)

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male Lamella characteristica
(Jäger 1995a)

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male Lamella characteristica
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Cymbium, prolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Habitus
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Roberts 1987)

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female Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1956)

species

female Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

species

female Pedipalp
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Epigyne
(Hippa & Oksala 1985)

species

female Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

species

female Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

species

female Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

species

female Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

species

female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Epigyne, posterior view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Vulva
(Wiehle 1956)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, expanded, posterior view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Prosoma, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Distribution List
Austria   ( no references ) ||| Belarus   ( no references ) ||| Belgium   ( no references ) ||| Bulgaria   ( Blagoev et al., 2018; ) ||| Czechia   ( no references ) ||| Denmark   ( no references ) ||| Estonia   ( no references ) ||| Finland   ( Koponen et al., 2016; ) ||| France   ( no references ) ||| Germany   ( no references ) ||| Ireland   ( no references ) ||| Italy   ( Pantini & Isaia, 2019; ) ||| Latvia   ( Cera, 2018; ) ||| Liechtenstein   ( no references ) ||| Lithuania   ( no references ) ||| Netherlands   ( no references ) ||| North Macedonia   ( Komnenov, 2014; ) ||| Northern Ireland   ( no references ) ||| Norway   ( no references ) ||| Poland   ( no references ) ||| Romania   ( no references ) ||| Russia, Central   ( no references ) ||| Russia, Eastern   ( no references ) ||| Russia, Kaliningrad Region   ( no references ) ||| Russia, Northern   ( no references ) ||| Russia, Western   ( no references ) ||| Slovakia   ( no references ) ||| Spain   ( no references ) ||| Sweden   ( no references ) ||| Switzerland   ( no references ) ||| Ukraine   ( Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019; ) ||| United Kingdom   ( no references ) |||
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)

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 pdf

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152 pdf

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

Hippa H, Oksala I (1985) A review of some holarctic Agyneta Hull s. str. (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Bull Br Arachnol Soc 6: 277-288

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

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British Spiders 2. Ray Soc London

Løvbrekke 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). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester

Wiehle H (1956) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, X. 28: Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen. Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1-337

World Spider Catalog (2020) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.03.2020) doi: 10.24436/2

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