Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Erigonoplus  Simon, 1884   18 species

Erigonoplus castellanus  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875)

Description
Male

Tibia I-II with 2 spines, III-IV with 1 spine; TmI at 0.4-0.45. Prosoma yellow-brown, thoracic part suffused with blackish-brown, with a very large lobe. Legs dull orange. Opisthosoma black, coriaceous, bearing moderatly long stout curved bristles.

Body length male: 1.8 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 0.73 mm, prosoma width: 0.57 mm.

Body length female: 1.8-1.9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Portugal, Spain
Phenology
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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.

Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Bosmans R, Cardoso P, Crespo L C (2010) A review of the linyphiid spiders of Portugal, with the description of six new species (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 2473: 1-67 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Millidge A F (1975b) A taxonomic revision of the genus Erigonoplus Simon 1884 (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 3: 95-100 pdf

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 pdf

Updates
05-11-2013 Datasheet update Detail
05-11-2013 Image insert