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Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Aculepeira  Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942   8 species

Aculepeira lapponica  (Holm, 1945)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014969

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Description
Male

Prosoma length: 3.0 mm.

Female

Epigyne: scape triangular, with short tip. Prosoma length: 3.1-3.2 mm. Prosoma yellowish brown, sides of cephalic part and area between cephalic and thoracic parts brown. Chelicerae with 4 pro- and 3 retromarginal teeth. Sternum dark brown. Legs yellow-brown, annulated with reddish brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum chocolate brown, covered with long brown hairs, median longitudinal band dentate, venter with light streaks and a small white spot near spinnerets.

Body length female: 8.3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2022): Sweden, Finland, Russia (West Siberia)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Palmgren 1974a)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Palmgren 1974a)

species

female Epigyne
(Holm 1945)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Palmgren 1974a)

species

female Epigyne, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Epigyne, posterior view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Epigyne, posterior view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Holm 1945)

species

female Opisthosoma, lateral view
(Palmgren 1974a)

Distribution List
Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Norway   (Aakra et al., 2016) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
References

Aakra K, Morka G H, Antonson A, Farlund M, Wrånes R E, Frølandshagen R, Løvbrekke H, Furuseth P, Fjellberg A, Lemke M, Pfliegler W P, Andersen S, Olsen K M, Aadland B, Berggren K (2016) Spiders new to Norway (Arachnida, Araneae) with ecological, taxonomical and faunistic comments. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 63: 6-43 pdf

Holm Å (1945) Zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna des Torneträskgebietes. Arkiv för Zoologi 36(A15): 1-80 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.)

Palmgren P (1974a) Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens IV. Argiopidae, Tetragnathidae und Mimetidae. Fauna Fennica 24: 1-70 pdf

WSC (2022) World Spider Catalog. Version 23.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (21.07.2022) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
15-12-2021 Image insert
01-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
04-03-2014 Image insert