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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Mecynargus  Kulczyński, 1894   11 species

Mecynargus monticola  (Holm, 1943)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011563

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Description
Male

Prosoma grey-brown, with narrow median mark, 6 radial stripes and narrow lateral margin. Clypeus with marginal mark. Eye field black. Legs brown, femora yellow-brown. Opisthosoma grey-black. Palp: Tibia apophysis strongly notched at outer edge. Paracymbium broad C-shaped. End part of tegular apophysis with median tooth. Embolus short, screw-shaped.

Prosoma length: 0.8 mm, prosoma width: 0.7 mm.

Body length male: 1.7 mm
Female

Colour almost as in male. Prosoma a bit darker, with broad, median saddle-shaped mark which is connected with the dark eye field by 3 stripes. Epigyne: Much wider than long, strongly domed, posterior with long, oval atrium which is divided by a median septum and ends anteriorly into two copulatory pockets.

Prosoma length: 0.7 mm, prosoma width: 0.5 mm.

Body length female: 1.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Sweden, Finland, Russia (Europe to Far East), Mongolia, Canada
Figures
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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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Prosoma, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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Sternum
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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.

Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
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

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

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

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

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
23-10-2022 Gallery image insert
28-09-2016 Datasheet update Detail