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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Pelecopsis  Simon, 1864   41 species

Pelecopsis loksai Szinetár & Samu, 2003

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038570

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Description
Male

Tip if embolus short and sickle-shaped. Tibial apophysis thin. Prosoma with extended cephalic region. Sternum dark grey with small yellow patches, margin black. Legs yellow. Opisthosoma grey.

Body length male: 1.45-1.6 mm
Female

Round spermathecae visible through cuticle. Colour as in males

Body length female: 1.22-1.47 mm
Additional information

In open calcareous rock grassland.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, North Macedonia, Bulgaria
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Szinetár & Samu 2003)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Szinetár & Samu 2003)

species

male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Szinetár & Samu 2003)

species

male Prosoma, lateral view
(Szinetár & Samu 2003)

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female Epigyne
(Szinetár & Samu 2003)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Szinetár & Samu 2003)

species

female Prosoma, dorsal view
(Szinetár & Samu 2003)

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female Prosoma, lateral view
(Szinetár & Samu 2003)

Distribution List
Bulgaria   (Naumova et al., 2021) ||| Hungary   (Szinetár & Samu, 2003) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Serbia   (Grbić et al., 2015) ||| Slovakia   (Svatoň et al., 2009) |||
References

Grbić G, Hänggi A, Savić D (2015) New faunistic records of spiders (Arachnida, Areneae [sic]) from the Fruška Gora mountain, northern Serbia. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 67: 479-486 pdf

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Naumova M, Blagoev G, Deltshev D (2021) Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984: 228-257 pdf

Svatoň J, Gajdoš P, Černecká L, Franc V, Korenko S, Kovalčík R, Krumpálová Z (2009) Pavúky – Araneae. In: Mašán P, Mihál I (eds.), Pavúkovce Cerovej Vrchoviny. Arachnids of the Cerová Vrchovina Highland (Arachnida: Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones, Opiliones, Acari), Institute of Forest Ecology, Zvolen: 21-123 pdf

Szinetár C, Samu F (2003) Pelecopsis loksai sp. n., a new erigonine spider from Hungary (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 412-414 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

Updates
10-06-2021 Distribution insert Detail
21-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
05-01-2016 Distribution update Detail
30-09-2015 Distribution update Detail