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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Entelecara  Simon, 1884   16 species

Entelecara acuminata  (Wider, 1834)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010269

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Description

Tibial apophysis with 2 bent processes, one tooth at base of the larger one. Sclerotised arcs of epigynal plate uniformly round and encircling a brighter area. Prosoma male: with elevated head region, distinctly higher than wide.

Body length male: 1.8-2 mm
Body length female: 2.1-2.3 mm
Additional information

Mainly on top of shrubbery and under twigs of trees in open areas

Frequency: Frequent

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2023): Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Iran, Central Asia. Introduced to Canada, USA
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1960a)

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male Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1960a)

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male Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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male Pedipalp
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Gnelitsa 2022a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Gnelitsa 2022a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Gnelitsa 2022a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Gnelitsa 2022a)

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male Pedipalp, ventro-prolateral view
(Gnelitsa 2022a)

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male Pedipalp, ventro-prolateral view
(Gnelitsa 2022a)

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male Embolus
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Gnelitsa 2022a)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Gnelitsa 2022a)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Locket et al. 1974)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Wiehle 1960a)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Morka unpubl.)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Roberts 1987)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Wiehle 1960a)

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male Prosoma, frontal view
(Wiehle 1960a)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Gnelitsa 2022a)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Gnelitsa 2022a)

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female Epigyne
(Wiehle 1960a)

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female Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Morka unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Gnelitsa 2022a)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Gnelitsa 2022a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Gnelitsa 2022a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Gnelitsa 2022a)

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female Epigyne, ventro-caudal view
(Gnelitsa 2022a)

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female Epigyne, ventro-caudal view
(Gnelitsa 2022a)

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female Vulva
(Wiehle 1960a)

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female Vulva
(Wiehle 1960a)

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female Vulva
(Wiehle 1960a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva
(Morka unpubl.)

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female Vulva
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Gnelitsa 2022a)

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.

Albania   (Kůrka et al., 2020) ||| Austria   (no references) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022) ||| Denmark   (no references) ||| Estonia   (no references) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (no references) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Latvia   (Cera, 2018) ||| Liechtenstein   (Frick, unpubl.) ||| Luxembourg   (Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| Moldova   (Mikhailov, 2013) ||| Montenegro   (no references) ||| Netherlands   (no references) ||| Northern Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Poland   (no references) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Russia, Central   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Western   (no references) ||| Serbia   (no references) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2022) ||| Turkey (Europe)   (Danışman et al., 2022) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) ||| 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

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) 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

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2022) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2022 [last updated 24 August 2022], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Fjellberg A (unpubl.)

Frick H (unpubl.) .

Gnelitsa V A (2022a) Entelecara Simon, 1884 species in Ukraine (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnology 19: 46-62 pdf

Helsdingen P J van (2013) A quick scan of the spider fauna of the European part of Turkey. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 33: 29-38 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

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Kreuels M, Staudt A, Christian S (2019) Die Spinnenfauna von Luxemburg – eine Zusammenstellung der Nachweise aus den Jahren 1906-2018 (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 121: 203-230 pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Kůrka A, Naumova M, Indzhov S, Deltshev C (2020) New faunistic and taxonomic data on the spider fauna of Albania (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 8-21 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

Locket G H, Millidge A F, Merrett P (1974) British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp. pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

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

Morka G H (unpubl.)

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

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

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

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022) 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

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

Tanasevitch A V (2019b) On linyphiid spiders collected by Antoine Senglet on Corsica, with the description of a new species (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 126: 43-51 pdf

Wiehle H (1960a) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae). XI. Micryphantidae-Zwergspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 47: 1-620 pdf

WSC (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (14.02.2023) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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