Incestophantes crucifer (Menge, 1866)
Description
Paracymbium with small, pointed process on terminal part. Epigyne transverse oval with narrow median part. Process of anterior epigynal plate narrow, triangular, transversely truncated posteriorly. Prosoma light yellow, with black-brown margin and median stripe. Sternum brown, with darker margin. Chelicerae yellowish, female: anterior cheliceral furrow margin with 3, posterior margin with 5 denticles. Male: anterior and posterior cheliceral furrow margin with 2 denticles.. Legs light yellow, annulated with black-brown. Opisthosoma dorsally with white spots and dark pattern (transverse stripes), ventrally brownish with white spots.
Body length male: 2.2-2.7 mmBody length female: 2.2-2.7 mm
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1956)
Pedipalp
(Thaler et al. 1994)
Pedipalp
(Thaler et al. 1994)
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Gnelitsa 2009b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Gnelitsa 2009b)
Pedipalp, mesal view
(Gnelitsa 2009b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Lamella characteristica
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Lamella characteristica
(Seyfulina 2019)
Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1956)
Epigyne
(Thaler et al. 1994)
Epigyne, aboral view
(Thaler et al. 1994)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Gnelitsa 2009b)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Gnelitsa 2009b)
Epigyne, dorsal view
(Gnelitsa 2009b)
Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, dorsal view
(Seyfulina 2019)
Epigyne
(Fjellberg unpubl.)
Epigyne, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Morka unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Morka unpubl.)
Epigyne, variation
(Gnelitsa 2009b)
Epigyne, variation
(Gnelitsa 2009b)
Epigyne, variation
(Gnelitsa 2009b)
Vulva
(Wiehle 1956)
Vulva
(Gnelitsa 2009b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva
(Fjellberg unpubl.)
Leg I
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
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
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Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018)
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Deltshev C, Komnenov M, Blagoev G, Georgiev T, Lazarov S, Stojkoska E, Naumova M (2013) Faunistic diversity of spiders (Araneae) in Galichitsa Mountain (FYR Macedonia). Biodiversity Data Journal 1(e977): 1-70
Fjellberg A (unpubl.)
Gnelitsa V A (2009b) A new species of Incestophantes Tanasevitch, 1992 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Ukraine. ZooKeys 16: 309-317
Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311
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
Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001]
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Morka G H (unpubl.)
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Pantini P, Isaia M (2021) Araneae.it. The catalog of the Italian apiders.
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.
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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
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Seyfulina R R (2019) On linyphiid spiders (Aranei: Linyphiidae) from Moscow Area, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 28: 453-458
Thaler K, Helsdingen P J van, Deltshev C (1994) Vikariante Verbreitung im Artenkomplex von Lepthyphantes annulatus in Europa und ihre Deutung (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 232: 111-127
Wiehle H (1956) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, X. 28: Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1-337
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