Porrhomma cambridgei Merrett, 1994
Description
Female
Prosoma, legs and sternum pale yellow-brown. Prosoma length: 0.68-0.80 mm. Opisthosoma greyish white to yellow-brown suffused with grey.
Body length female: 1.6-2.1 mmAdditional information
In crevices in the soil in grasslands and arable land, also at trees.
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge 1894)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge 1894)
Embolic division
(Růžička 2018)
Prosoma, frontal view
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge 1894)
Epigyne
(Merrett 1994)
Epigyne
(Merrett 1994)
Epigyne
(Merrett 1994)
Epigyne
(Růžička 2018)
Epigyne
(Van Keer et al. 2016)
Vulva
(Merrett 1994)
Vulva, caudal view
(Růžička 2018)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Růžička 2018)
Vulva, ventral view
(Růžička 2018)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2016)
Vulva, ventral view
(Van Keer et al. 2016)
Vulva, ventral view
(Thaler et al. 2003)
Eyes, frontal view
(Růžička 2018)
Habitus, frontal view
(Van Keer et al. 2016)
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.
References
Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 
Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69
Danflous S, Déjean S, Guerbaa K, Jacquet C, Lecigne S, Montagne D, Montardi Y, Villepoux O (2020b) De araneis Galliae IV. Actualisation du référentiel des araignées de France – première note. Espèces absentes de France ou mises en nomen dubium. Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 5: 10-32
Hänggi A (1999) Nachträge zum "Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen" - 2. Neunachweise von 1993 bis 1999 Archnologische Mitteilungen 18: 17-37
Helsdingen P J van (2025a) Catalogus van de Nederlandse spinnen. Versie 2025.1. 249 pp.
Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204
Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212
Merrett P (1994) Porrhomma cambridgei, replacement name for Porrhomma oblongum (O. P.-Cambridge, 1871), revalidated and redescribed from southern England (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9: 318-320
Pickard-Cambridge F O (1894) New genera and species of British spiders. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 13: 87-111
Růžička V (2018) A review of the spider genus Porrhomma (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 4481: 1-75
Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html
Thaler K, Buchar J, Kubcová L (2003) Neue Funde von zwei Porrhomma-Arten in Zentraleuropa (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 46: 173-175
Van Keer J, Lambrechts J, Jacobs M, Kekenbosch R (2016) Porrhomma cambridgei Merrett, 1994 (Araneae, Linyphiidae), a species new to the Belgian spider fauna. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 31: 25-29
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2