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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Walckenaeria  Blackwall, 1833   62 species

Walckenaeria karpinskii  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)

Description

Colour, size and most other characters very close to W. clavicornis

Body length male: 2-2.3 mm
Body length female: 2-2.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Records from UK and the Alps belong to W. clavicornis; Svalbard: removed (Dahl et al. 2018)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): North America, Scandinavia, Lithuania, Russia (Europe to Far East), China, Mongolia
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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.

Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Lithuania   (no references) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Central   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
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

Biteniekytė M, Rėlys V (2012) The checklist of Lithuanian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Biologija 57: 148-158 pdf

Dahl M T, Yoccoz N G, Aakra K, Coulson S J (2018) The Araneae of Svalbard: the relationships between specific environmental factors and spider assemblages in the High Arctic. Polar Biology 41: 839-853 pdf

Efimik V E, Esyunin S L (1996) A new subgenus and a new species of Walckenaeria Blackwall, 1833, from the Urals with remarks on the distribution of some unicornis-group species in the Palearctic (Aranei Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 5(1/2): 63-73 pdf

Fjellberg A (unpubl.)

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 (1983) The erigonine spiders of North America. Part 6. The genus Walckenaeria Blackwall (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Journal of Arachnology 11: 105-200 pdf

Morka G H (unpubl.)

Parker J R (1969) On the establishment of Cornicularia clavicornis Emerton (Araneae) as a British species. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 1: 49-54 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
21-09-2022 Image insert
24-05-2020 Distribution update Detail
06-01-2020 Image insert
30-09-2015 Distribution update Detail
20-11-2014 Image insert