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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Troxochrota  Kulczyński, 1894   1 species

Troxochrota scabra Kulczyński, 1894

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013135

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Description
Male

Colour and chelicerae as in female. Palp: tibia wider than long, dorsally with slightly bent and apically bristle-bearing apophysis. Embolus almost completely or most of it covered by complicated conductor.

Prosoma length: 0.7 mm, prosoma width: 0.6 mm.

Body length male: 1.5 mm
Female

Prosoma dark red-brown to almost black. Sternum of similar colour. Opisthosoma grey. Chelicerae with each 4 teeth on pro- and retromargin. Epigyne: epigynal field transverse, oval, medially at the rim with a small plate, median part usually elevated transversally.

Body length female: 1.7 mm
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Switzerland, Germany, Romania, Scandinavia, Estonia, Russia (Europe)
Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Millidge 1977)

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male Pedipalp
(Tullgren 1955)

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male Pedipalp
(Morka unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Höfer et al. 2019)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Höfer et al. 2019)

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male Palpal tibia
(Tullgren 1955)

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male Palpal tibia
(Morka unpubl.)

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male Palpal tibia
(Morka unpubl.)

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male Palpal tibia
(Morka unpubl.)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Tullgren 1955)

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female Epigyne
(Tullgren 1955)

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female Epigyne
(Morka unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva
(Tullgren 1955)

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female Vulva
(Tullgren 1955)

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female Vulva
(Morka unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

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female Habitus, dorsal view
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

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female Habitus, ventral view
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

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.

Estonia   (Vilbaste, 1987) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Germany   (Höfer et al., 2019) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Central   (Seyfulina, 2019) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin, 2008) ||| Russia, Western   (Oliger, 2016) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi & Stäubli, 2012) |||
References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 pdf

Esyunin S L (2008) Remarks on the Ural spider (Arachnida, Aranei) fauna, 13. New records of linyphiid spider (Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 16: 169-172 pdf

Fjellberg A (unpubl.) .

Hänggi A, Stäubli A (2012) Nachträge zum „Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen“: 4. Neunachweise von 2002 bis 2011. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 59-76 pdf

Höfer H, Meyer F, Bauer T, Bayer S, Harry I, Kastner L (2019) Überraschende Erstnachweise und neue Daten zu seltenen Spinnenarten (Arachnida: Araneae) aus Blockhalden in Baden-Württemberg. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 58: 62-84 pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Millidge A F (1977) The conformation of the male palpal organs of linyphiid spiders, and its application to the taxonomic and phylogenetic analysis of the family (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 1-60 pdf

Morka G H (unpubl.)

Oliger T I (2016) [The spider check-list (Araneae) of Nizhne-Svirskii nature reserve (Leningrad region, Russia)]. Lodeinoye Pole. 84 pp. pdf

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

Tullgren A (1955) Zur Kenntnis schwedischer Erigoniden. Arkiv för Zoologi (N.S.) 7: 295-389 pdf

Vilbaste A (1987) Eesti Ämblikud (Aranei). Annoteeritud nimestik. Estonian spiders (Aranei). An annotated check list. Valgus, Tallinn. 113 pp. & 512 maps on 67 unpag. pages pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
17-07-2021 Distribution update Detail
06-01-2020 Image insert
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28-09-2019 Distribution update Detail
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