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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Mecynargus  Kulczyński, 1894   11 species

Mecynargus sphagnicola  (Holm, 1939)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011568

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Description
Male

Prosoma blunt oviform, slightly elevated, without depression. Opisthosoma without pattern, dark. Palp: Paracymbium complicated, smaller than tibia.

Prosoma length: 0.9 mm, prosoma width: 0.6 mm.

Body length male: 1.9 mm
Female

Prosoma not elevated, with slight depression medially. Opisthosoma dark. Epigyne: Semicircular plate with "filled fovea" in central part well separated from sides. Shape of fovea trapezoidal.

Prosoma length: 0.8 mm, prosoma width: 0.6 mm.

Body length female: 1.8 mm
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greenland, Scandinavia, Russia (Europe to Far East), Mongolia, Canada
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Holm 1967)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Millidge 1977)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral 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
(Holm 1967)

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female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Morka unpubl.)

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female Vulva
(Holm 1939)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Morka 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   (Nekhaeva, 2020) ||| 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

Holm Å (1939) Neue Spinnen aus Schweden. Beschreibung neuer Arten der Familien Drassidae, Theridiidae, Linyphiidae und Micryphantidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 31(A8): 1-38 pdf

Holm Å (1967) Spiders (Araneae) from west Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 184(1): 1-99 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.)

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

Millidge A F (1977) The conformation of the male palpal organs of linyphiid spiders, and its application to the taxonomic and phylogenetic analysis of the family (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 1-60 pdf

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

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
24-10-2022 Image insert
25-09-2022 Image insert
23-09-2022 Gallery image insert
02-10-2020 Distribution update Detail