Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Macrargus  Dahl, 1886   5 species

Macrargus multesimus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875)

Description

Prosoma orange. Sternum grey-orange with darker margin. Opisthosoma dark grey.

Body length male: 2.5-2.8 mm
Body length female: 2.5-3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Mongolia, China
Phenology
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Distribution List
Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Central   (Esyunin et al., 2020a) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Northern   (Nekhaeva, 2020; Koponen et al., 1998) ||| Russia, Western   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Ukraine   (Gnelitsa & Koponen, 2010) |||
References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 pdf

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp. pdf

Esyunin S L, Ruchin A B, Agafonova O V (2020a) To the knowledge of the spider fauna (Aranei) of the Republic of Mordovia (Russia). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 16: 3-13 pdf

Gnelitsa V A, Koponen S (2010) A new species of the genus Macrargus (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Micronetinae) from the north-east of Ukraine and redescription of two related species. Vestnik Zoologii 44: 1-9 pdf

Hauge E (1969) Six species of spiders (Araneae) new to Norway. Norsk Entomologisk Tidsskrift 16: 1-8 pdf

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311 pdf

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 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

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Morka G H (unpubl.)

Nekhaeva A A (2020) On the spider fauna (Arachnida: Aranei) of the Kanin Peninsula and Kolguev Island, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 29: 387-398 pdf

Paquin P, Dupérré N (2003) Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplément 11: 1-251 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

Wunderlich J (1995d) Linyphiidae aus der Mongolei (Arachnida: Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 4: 479-529 pdf

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