Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Porrhomma  Simon, 1884   16 species

Porrhomma cambridgei  Merrett, 1994

Description
Body length male: 1.4-1.6 mm
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 mm
Additional information

In crevices in the soil in grasslands and arable land.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al. 2018)

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Britain, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Czechia, Switzerland, Italy
Phenology
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Figures
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.

Belgium   (Van Keer et al., 2016; Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France  Removed (Danflous et al., 2020b) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Netherlands   (no references) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi, 1999) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
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 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69 pdf

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 pdf

Hänggi A (1999) Nachträge zum "Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen" - 2. Neunachweise von 1993 bis 1999 Archnologische Mitteilungen 18: 17-37 pdf

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Mammola S, Cardoso P, Ribera C, Pavlek M, Isaia M (2018b) A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe. Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 56: 301-316 pdf

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 pdf

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

Pickard-Cambridge F O (1894) New genera and species of British spiders. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 13: 87-111 pdf

Růžička V (2018) A review of the spider genus Porrhomma (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 4481: 1-75 pdf

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 pdf

Thaler K, Buchar J, Kubcová L (2003) Neue Funde von zwei Porrhomma-Arten in Zentraleuropa (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 46: 173-175 pdf

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 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
08-02-2024 Distribution update Detail
08-02-2024 Image insert
05-10-2020 Distribution update Detail
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