Linyphia mimonti Simon, 1885
Description
Male
Prosoma light yellow-brown, with a narrow blackish submarginal band. Chelicerae light yellow-brown, promargin with 3, retromargin with 4 teeth. Stenrum yellow-brown, grey at margins. Legs yellow brown with dark annulation, patellae greyish, tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi with distinct apical rings. Opisthosoma light beige-coloured (bleached?), latero-dorsal bands with white blotches on whole length, dorsal posterior third with faint grey chevrons, lateral with a row of 4 small oblong black spots, lateral and ventral side with some white spots. Spinnerets yellow-brown (van Helsdingen, 1969).
Body length male: 4.2 mmFemale
Colouration in general as in males. Opisthosoma with purple-brown median band, its margins serrated and sinuate, dorsal half of lateral surface and around median band white (van Helsdingen, 1969).
Body length female: 3.9-6 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Brignoli 1975a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(van Helsdingen 1969)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(van Helsdingen 1969)
Embolic division
(Brignoli 1975a)
Embolic division, dorsal view
(van Helsdingen 1969)
Embolic division, ventral view
(van Helsdingen 1969)
Tegulum, mesal view
(van Helsdingen 1969)
Epigyne, ventral view
(van Helsdingen 1969)
Vulva, dorsal view
(van Helsdingen 1969)
Vulva, ventral view
(van Helsdingen 1969)
Distribution List
References
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