araneae - Helophora insignis

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Helophora insignis (Blackwall, 1841)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010791

Description

Male palp with strikingly long lamella. Tibia with short bitubercular cone. Epigyne elongated toward posterior end, lying close to opisthosoma. Prosoma yellow to orange-brown, with dark margin. Sternum yellow, blackish tinged with dark margin. Chelicerae yellow, robust. Legs yellow, long and thin. Opisthosoma light grey with dark pattern, dorsally with several transverse stripes in posterior half, ventrally with 2 longitudinal stripes.

Body length male: 3.5-5 mm
Body length female: 3.5-5 mm

Additional information

on low vegetation in humid forests, preferring low mountain range

Character states from linyphiid key

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2022): North America, Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kyrgyzstan, China

Phenology



Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Figures

Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1956)

Pedipalp
(Azheganova 1968)

Pedipalp
(Roberts 1998)

Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1953)

Pedipalp
(Roberts 1987)

Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Leg I, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Femur I, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Habitus, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Epigyne, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Epigyne
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

Vulva
(Azheganova 1968)

Vulva
(Wiehle 1953)

Vulva
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Distribution List

Austria (no references) ||| Belarus (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Belgium (no references) ||| Czechia (no references) ||| Denmark (no references) ||| Estonia (no references) ||| Finland (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France (no references) ||| Germany (no references) ||| Hungary (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Ireland (Lavery, 2019) ||| Italy (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Latvia (Cera, 2018) ||| Lithuania (no references) ||| Luxembourg (Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| 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, Northern (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) ||| 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

Azheganova N S (1968) Kratkii opredelitel' paukov (Aranei) lesnoi i lesostepnoi zony SSSR. Akademia Nauk SSSR, 149pp.

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

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

Fjellberg A (unpubl.)

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

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

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

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

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

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp.

Løvbrekke 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

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

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

Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.

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

Wiehle H (1953) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae), IX. Orthognatha-Cribellata-Haplogynae, Entelegynae (Pholcidae, Zodariidae, Oxyopidae, Mimetidae, Nesticidae). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 42: 1-150

Wiehle H (1956) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, X. 28: Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1-337

WSC (2022) World Spider Catalog. Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (21.01.2022) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates

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