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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Improphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996   11 species

Improphantes complicatus  (Emerton, 1882)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010893

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Description

Male palp with gradually tapering lamella, serrated distally. Epigyne with square scapus, not visible in ventral view, arranged perpendicular to opisthosoma. Prosoma yellow-brown. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma grey.

Body length male: 1.7-2.2 mm
Body length female: 1.7-2.2 mm
Additional information

in grass heathland and in mountain region

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2019): North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East)
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Roberts 1987)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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male Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Lamella characteristica
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

male Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

species

female Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

species

female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

species

female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

species

female Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

species

female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

References

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

Lissner J, Jensen J-K, Hansen L J, Simonsen W, Kelduni R, Nissen K (2016b) An updated checklist of spiders (Araneae) of the Faroe Islands. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 63: 197-240 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British Spiders 2. Ray Soc London

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

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). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester

Seyfulina R R (2019) On linyphiid spiders (Aranei: Linyphiidae) from Moscow Area, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 28: 453-458 pdf

World Spider Catalog (2019) World Spider Catalog, version 20.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.09.2019) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates
28-09-2019 Distribution update Old value