Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Glyphesis  Simon, 1926   4 species

Glyphesis cottonae  (La Touche, 1946)

Description

Prosoma dark brown to black. Legs yellow-brown, distal part of femur, tibia and metatarsus blackish darkened. Opisthosoma black.

Body length male: 0.9-1 mm
Body length female: 0.9-1 mm
Additional information

One of our smallest spiders, only found a few times in very humid places as yet

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Europe, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Japan
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.

Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Denmark   (no references) ||| Estonia   (Mikhailov, 2013) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Ireland   (Nolan, 2008; Lavery, 2019) ||| Lithuania   (Biteniekytė & Rėlys, 2012) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Kaliningrad Region   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

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

Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69 pdf

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311 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

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp. pdf

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

Nolan M (2008) First records of three spider species in Ireland (Araneae): Glyphesis cottonae (La Touche), Mioxena blanda (Simon) (Linyphiidae) and Segestria florentina (Rossi) (Segestriidae). Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 32: 132-141 pdf

Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp. pdf

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html pdf

Wiehle H (1960a) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae). XI. Micryphantidae-Zwergspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 47: 1-620 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
09-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
03-02-2019 Distribution update Detail
04-05-2017 Distribution update Detail
30-09-2015 Distribution update Detail
28-04-2014 Distribution update Detail