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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Hilaira  Simon, 1884   7 species

Hilaira proletaria (L. Koch, 1879)

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 1.7 mm.

Female

Prosoma length: 1.65-1.75 mm, prosoma width: 1.20-1.25 mm.

Body length female: 3.48 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Russia (Europe to Far North-East), Alaska, Canada
Phenology
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Distribution List
Russia, Northern   (Marusik & Nekhaeva, 2020; Koponen et al., 1998) ||| Russia, Novaya Zemlya   (Marusik & Nekhaeva, 2020; Tanasevitch, 2017b) |||
References

Holm Å (1973) On the Spiders collected during the Swedish Expeditions to Novaya Zemlya and Yenisey in 1875 and 1876. Zoologica Scripta 2: 71-110 pdf

Koponen S, Marusik Y M, Tanasevitch A V (1998) New data on the spider fauna of the Polar Urals (Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 6: 109-119 pdf

Kulczyński W (1916) Araneae Sibiriae occidentalis arcticae. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Petrograd (8) 28(11): 1-44 pdf

Marusik Y M, Koponen S, Makarova O L (2016a) A survey of spiders (Araneae) collected on the arctic island of Dolgiy (69°12′N), Barents Sea. Arachnology 17: 10-24 pdf

Marusik Y M, Nekhaeva A A (2020) Redescription of two poorly known Arctic Hilaira species (Aranei: Linyphiidae) with notes on species grouping. Arthropoda Selecta 29: 133-140 pdf

Tanasevitch A V (2017b) Spiders (Aranei) of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago and the Vaygach Island, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 26: 145-153 pdf

Tanasevitch A V, Marusik Y M (2026) Reassessment of the spider genus Hilaira Simon, 1884. I. Revalidation of the genus Arctilaira Chamberlin, 1921 (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Invertebrate Zoology 23: 114-135 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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