Larinia elegans Spassky, 1939
Description
Male
Male palp with small process, bent toward cymbium.
Prosoma yellow-brown. Sternum yellow-brown. Legs pale yellow, completely bright. Opisthosoma with continuous longitudinal bands, often very bright, dorsally with 3 pairs of dark spots.
Female
Epigyne with very short scapus, not reaching beyond lateral parts.
Body length female: 7.3-11.0 mmAdditional information
In reed belt of large, not to deep lakes.
N.B. The illustrations of the male palps are mixed-up in Marusik (1986): figures 3.3-4 show L. bonneti; f. 2.3-4 show L. elegans.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Nemenz & Pühringer 1973)
Pedipalp
(Marusik 1986)
Pedipalp
(Marusik 1986)
Bulbus
(Marusik 1987b)
Habitus
(Nemenz & Pühringer 1973)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Šich et al. 2023)
Epigyne
(Nemenz & Pühringer 1973)
Epigyne
(Marusik 1986)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Marusik 1986)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Šich et al. 2023)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Purgat et al. 2025)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Purgat et al. 2025)
Epigyne (scapus removed)
(Šich et al. 2023)
Vulva
(Nemenz & Pühringer 1973)
Vulva, lateral view
(Nemenz & Pühringer 1973)
Prosoma, frontal view
(Nemenz & Pühringer 1973)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Nemenz & Pühringer 1973)
Opisthosoma, ventral view
(Marusik 1987b)
Habitus
(Nemenz & Pühringer 1973)
Habitus, ventral view
(Nemenz & Pühringer 1973)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Šich et al. 2023)
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.
References
Marusik Y M A (1986) A redescription of types of certain orb-weaving spiders (Araneidae, Tetragnathidae) from S. A. Spassky collection. Vestnik Zoologii 6: 19-22 
Marusik Y M. (1987b) The orb-weaver genus Larinia Simon in the USSR (Aranei, Araneidae). Spixiana 9: 245-254
Nemenz H, Pühringer G (1973) Zur Taxonomie und Ökologie von Singa phragmiteti Nemenz 1956. Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (I) 181: 101-109
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Purgat P, Šestáková A, Korenko S, Gajdoš P (2025) Two rare wetland spider species new to Slovakia: Larinia elegans Spassky, 1939 and Tetragnatha reimoseri (Roșca, 1939) (Araneae, Araneidae, Tetragnathidae). Check List 21: 1160-1170
Řezáč M, Růžička V, Hula V, Dolanský J, Machač O, Roušar A (2021) Spiders newly observed in Czechia in recent years – overlooked or invasive species? BioInvasions Records 10: 555-566
Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html
Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
Šich R, Komnenov M, Trajkovska M, Just P, Střeštík V, Rückl K (2023) New records of Larinia elegans (Araneae: Araneidae) from Czechia and North Macedonia with remarks on its ecology. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 65: 8-12
Šich R, Rückl K (2020) První nález křižáka rákosového (Larinia elegans Spassky, 1939) v České republice [The first find of the reed crusader (Larinia elegans Spassky, 1939) in the Czech Republic]. Pavouk 48: 3-5
WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
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