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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Silometopus  Simon, 1926   15 species

Silometopus curtus  (Simon, 1882)

Description

Tibial apophysis short and straight. Prosoma brown to dark brown, median spot posteriorly blunt-angularly, 3 dark stripes radiating to the eyes, distinct radial stripes, margin of prosoma black. Sternum brown-black. Chelicerae yellow-brown. Legs yellow-brown, blackened distally. Opisthosoma black, flat, long oval, densely provided with impressed dots, ventrally dark grey. Spinnerets yellowish.

Body length male: 1.3-1.4 mm
Body length female: 1.5 mm
Additional information

In dune areas, tolerates flooding with sea water

 

Figures by Wiehle (1960a) and Locket & Millidge (1953) of Silometopus curtus have been transferred to Silometopus ambiguus because of misidentification (Locket et al. 1974; Blick, 2014)

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Records from Malta and Egypt doubtful, therefore removed (see Blick 2014), Spain is doubtful too (Bosmans & Samu 2020)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): France, Hungary, Spain?, Malta?, Egypt?
Phenology
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 male  female
females until spring
Figures
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.

France   (no references) ||| Hungary   (Bosmans & Samu, 2020) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Blick T (2014) The long-lasting story of the wrong naming of Silometopus ambiguus as S. curtus (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 47: 45-48 pdf

Bosmans R, Samu F (2020) Confirmation of Silometopus curtus (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in Hungary. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 60: 27-29 pdf

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

Breitling R (2018) Eric Duffey's spider collection in the Manchester Museum – an update. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 141: 5-9 pdf

Denis J (1964e) Notes sur les érigonides. XXV. A propos de deux espèces de Camargue. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 88: 392-398 pdf

Locket G H (1964) Type material of British spiders in the O. Pickard-Cambridge collection at Oxford. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (13) 7: 257-278 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

Pfliegler W P (2018) Corrections and additions to 'Pfliegler et al. 2017 – New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida'. Soil Organisms 90: 41-42 pdf

Simon E (1926) Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 2e partie. Roret, Paris, 309-532 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
23-09-2020 Image insert
23-09-2020 Distribution insert Detail
23-09-2020 Distribution update Detail
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03-06-2014 Distribution update Detail
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