Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Wabasso  Millidge, 1984   2 species

Wabasso replicatus  (Holm, 1950)

Description

Male palp with long, distally hooked lobe with 2 long hairs at its end. Tibial apophysis with a short, broad, flat, dorsal part and a short, rounded, dorsolateral part with 2 trichobothria. Embolus slender, with sclerotised apophysis on its base. Epigyne broad with almost triangular scapus, which is slightly bent upwards on end. Prosoma yellow-brown to dark yellow-brown with grey stripes. Legs yellow-brown, to dark yellow-brown, suffused with grey. Metatarsus I male: distally with 2 robust spines. Opisthosoma grey-black.

Body length male: 1.1-1.4 mm
Body length female: 1.2-1.7 mm
Additional information

in rather dry lichen-rich habitats, but mainly in bogs with sphagnum and small bushes

Frequency: Not frequent, sometimes locally frequent

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Records of W. quaestio from Europe belong to W. replicatus
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Iceland, Britain, Scandinavia, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
Phenology
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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) ||| Iceland   (Agnarsson, 1996) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
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

Agnarsson I (1996) Íslenskar köngulær Fjölrit Náttúrufræðistofnunar 31: 1-175 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

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Merrett P, Dawson I K (2005) Revalidation of Wabasso replicatus (Holm, 1950), and description from Britain (Araneae: Linyphiidae) Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 117-121 pdf

Morka G H (unpubl.)

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
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17-07-2020 Distribution update Detail
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