Liocranidae  Simon, 1897 / Agroeca  Westring, 1861   13 species

Agroeca inopina  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1886

Description

Tibial apophysis very small and pointed. Epigyne with strongly sclerotised cuticular bar. Prosoma with bright median line. Legs annulated. Opisthosoma dark red-brown to brown, without recognisable pattern.

Body length male: 3.5-4.5 mm
Body length female: 4.5-7.5 mm
Additional information

In dune and heathland, under stones and in litter layer

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Omitted from the Bulgarian checklist due to misidentification (Deltshev pers. comm.), not in Finland (Kronestedt 2009, Koponen & Fritzén 2013), not in Austria (Blick et al. 2004.
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Europe, Algeria, Turkey, Iran
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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Netherlands   (no references) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Blick T, Bosmans R, Buchar J, Gajdoš P, Hänggi A, Helsdingen P van, Růžička V, Staręga W, Thaler K (2004) Checkliste der Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Checklist of the spiders of Central Europe. (Arachnida: Araneae). Version 1. Dezember 2004. pdf

Bosmans R (1999) The genera Agroeca, Agraecina, Apostenus and Scotina in the Maghreb countries (Araneae: Liocranidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 69: 25-34 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 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

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info 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 (2009) Taxonomic notes on Agroeca (Araneae, Liocranidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 37: 27-30 pdf

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1951) British spiders. Vol. I. Ray Society, London, 310 pp. pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2010) Errata et Corrigenda: New records for the Italian spider fauna (Arachnida, Araneae). Arthropoda Selecta 19: 264 pdf

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

Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp. pdf

Trotta A (2011) Second contribution to the knowledge of the spiders of Sardinia (Arachnida, Araneae). Conservazione Habitat Invertebrati 5: 137-161 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

Zamani A, Nadolny A A, Dolejš P (2022b) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part X. Arachnology 19: 551-573 pdf

Updates
12-07-2022 Image insert
04-02-2019 Datasheet update Detail
10-03-2015 Distribution update Detail
15-04-2013 Distribution update Detail