Anyphaenidae  Bertkau, 1878 / Anyphaena  Sundevall, 1833   6 species

Anyphaena furva  Miller, 1967

Description

Male palp with robust bristles on femur. Embolus long and S-shaped. Prosoma dark with bright median band. Sternum dark brown. Chelicerae dark brown. Legs brown, coxa and femur bright. Tibia and metatarsus darkly annulated. Opisthosoma dirty white to grey-brown with dark spots, 2 dark spots in the centre, very variable, nearly black animals can also be found.

In his description from 1967, Miller described the embolus as „short, claw-like, slightly bent, black“. Obviously, he saw the basal part only and overlooked the terminal hyaline part (Bauchhenss 2009)

Body length male: 3.8 mm
Body length female: 5.8 mm
Additional information

On rocks and trees in xerothermic habitats

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): France, Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan)
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.

Azerbaijan   (Nuruyeva et al., 2024) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France   (Vidal & Taberlet , 2018) ||| Georgia   (Ponomarev & Komarov, 2015; Otto, 2022) ||| Germany   (Bauchhenss, 2009; Blick et al., 2016) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) |||
References

Bauchhenss E (2009) Beiträge zur Taxonomie von Anyphaena furva Miller, 1967. Contributions to Natural History 12: 153-159 pdf

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.

Nuruyeva T V, Snegovaya N Y, Maharramov M M (2024) Three new records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan. Acta Biologica Sibirica 10: 1047-1052 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Ponomarev A V, Komarov Y E (2015) Spiders (Aranei) of the Republic of South Ossetia. The South of Russia: ecology, development 10: 116-147 pdf

Růžička V (2001) The female of Anyphaena furva Miller (Araneae: Anyphaenidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 46-48 pdf

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 pdf

Vidal E, Taberlet J-P (2018) Découverte en France de Anyphaena furva Miller, 1967 (Araneae, Anyphaenidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 5: 9-10 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

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