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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 2021): 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
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). [N.B.: few records from this paper are not taken over and not commented] Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (03.01.2021) 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