Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Scutpelecopsis  Marusik & Gnelitsa, 2009   4 species

Scutpelecopsis krausi  (Wunderlich, 1980)

Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown, broad, elevated arch-like behind the eye field, without cephalic lobe or lateral depressions, with fine wrinkles. Sternum black-brown. Legs slightly lighter then Prosoma. Opisthosoma dark grey, scutum dark brown. Palp: Patella slightly longer than wide. Tibia with 3 apophyses. Paracymbium simple, hook-shaped. Embolus very thin, semicircular.

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

Body length male: 1.7 mm
Female

Colour as in male. Epigyne dark brown, strongly sclerotized, slightly wider than long, protruding, with large funnel-like openings, posteriorly with2 light, long-oval grooves, which are only slightly separated.

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

Body length female: 1.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Italy, Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria
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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.

Albania   (van Helsdingen & IJland, 2015; Blick, 2018) ||| Armenia  Removed (Otto, 2022; Duma & Tanasevitch, 2011) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Georgia  Removed (Otto, 2022; Duma & Tanasevitch, 2011) ||| Greece   (Schröder et al., 2011; Bosmans et al., 2009) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| North Macedonia   (Wunderlich, 1980e) ||| Russia, Southern  Removed (Otto, 2022; Duma & Tanasevitch, 2011) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Blick T (2018) A small collection of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the River Vjosa, Albania – with an updated spider checklist of Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 213-232 pdf

Bosmans R, Baert L, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H, Maelfait J-P, Van Keer J (2009) Spiders of Lesbos (Greece). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 24(suppl.): 1-70 pdf

Duma I, Tanasevitch A V (2011) A new Scutpelecopsis Marusik & Gnelitsa from Romania (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 118: 251-256 pdf

Helsdingen P J van, IJland S (2015) A quick scan of the spider fauna in the surroundings of Përmet, Albania (Arachnida, Araneae) - preliminary report. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 35: 15-33 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Schröder M, Chatzaki M, Buchholz S (2011) The spider fauna of the Aladjagiola wetland complex (Nestos Delta, north-east Greece): a reflection of a unique zoogeographical transition zone in Europe. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 102: 217-233 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

Wunderlich J (1980e) Linyphiidae aus Süd-Europa und Nord-Afrika (Arachn.: Araneae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 23: 319-337 pdf

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