Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Mughiphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1999   28 species

Mughiphantes suffusus  (Strand, 1901)

Description
Male

As female, but smaller and with longer legs. Prosoma reticulation less fine. Dark. Palp: Tibia almost as long and wide as patella, with strongly rounded process, which is slightly longer than wide. Patella dorsally with long bristle.

Female

Prosoma finely reticulated, dorsal groove large. Eyes large. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on promargin. Sternum shiny and finely reticulated. Epigyne: Scape smooth, yellow-brown, with 3 weak longitudinal depressions and 2 small grooves.

Prosoma length: 1.1 mm, prosoma width: 0.8 mm.

Body length female: 2.6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Scandinavia, Russia (Europe to Far East)
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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, Eastern   (no references) ||| 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

Fjellberg A (unpubl.)

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
09-01-2024 Image insert
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