Lathyidae  Cala-Riquelme, Montana, Crews & Esposito, 2025 / Lathys  Simon, 1885   7 species

Lathys humilis (Blackwall, 1855)

Beschreibung

Konduktor mit breiter, ± rechteckiger Basis, Endwindungen langgestreckt. Epigyne mit breitem Mittelsteg. Prosoma hellbraun, mit dunklerem Rand und Radiärstreifen. Sternum dunkelbraun. Cheliceren hellbraun. Beine hellgrau, deutlich geringelt. Opisthosoma grünlich-braun, dorsal mit schwärzlich oder rotbrauner Zeichnung aus Längsstrichen und Winkelflecken.

Körperlänge Männchen: 1.7-2.5 mm
Körperlänge Weibchen: 1.7-2.8 mm
Zusätzliche Informationen

Häufigste Lathys-Art, auf Bäumen, an Sträuchern und Kräutern in sonnigem Gelände, mitunter auch am Boden

Verbreitung
  Vorkommen
  kein Nachweis
Weltweite Verbreitung (WSC 2026): Europe, Algeria, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, Tajikistan, China. Introduced to Canada
Phänologie
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Abbildungen
Verbreitungsnachweise
Albania   (van Helsdingen & IJland, 2015) ||| Algeria   (Denis, 1937b; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Andorra   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Austria   (Thaler, 1994b) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Denmark   (Scharff & Gudik-Sørensen, 2006) ||| Estonia   (Vilbaste, 1987) ||| France   (Montardi et al., 2023) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022; Otto & Japoshvili, 2018) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Greece   (Bosmans et al., 2009) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Latvia   (Cera, 2018) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Luxembourg   (Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| Netherlands   (van Helsdingen, 2025a) ||| North Macedonia   (Matevski et al., 2022a) ||| Norway   (Aakra et al., 2016; Farlund, 2019) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Central   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Kaliningrad Region   (Schikora, 2014) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Western   (no references) ||| Serbia   (Grbić et al., 2021) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019; Barrientos & Febrer, 2017) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Turkey (Europe)   (van Helsdingen, 2013; Demircan Aksan & Topçu, 2022c) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
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