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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Savignia  Blackwall, 1833   7 species

Savignia harmsi  Wunderlich, 1980

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012515

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Description
Male

Prosoma and legs light brown. Prosoma without depression, anteriorly elongated shaft-like, shaft bears the anterior median eyes laterally, a bit proximally of the midpoint. Opisthosoma uniform yellow-grey, long-oval. Palp: patella 2.5x longer than wide, distally club-like thickened. Tibia with a large, broad apophysis which is less sclerotized distally-retrolaterally and bent dorsad.

Prosoma length: 0.6 mm, prosoma width: 0.4 mm.

Body length male: 1.3 mm
Female

Colour as in male. Prosoma flat. Opisthosoma long-oval. Epigyne slightly protruding and with a distinct longitudinal slit.

Prosoma length: 0.5-0.6 mm, prosoma width: 0.4-0.5 mm.

Body length female: 1.4 mm
Additional information

A second male morph (cor) described by Bosmans & Oger (2018).

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Wunderlich 1980e)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1980e)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans & Oger 2018)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans & Oger 2018)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans & Oger 2018)

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male Embolic division, prolateral view
(Bosmans & Oger 2018)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Bosmans & Oger 2018)

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male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 1980e)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Wunderlich 1980e)

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male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Bosmans & Oger 2018)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Bosmans & Oger 2018)

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male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Bosmans & Oger 2018)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Bosmans & Oger 2018)

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female Epigyne
(Wunderlich 1980e)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 1980e)

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.

Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Bosmans R, Oger P (2018) On two cases of male dimorphism in dwarf spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 52-56 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 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

Updates
16-05-2018 Image insert