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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Helophora  Menge, 1866   1 species

Helophora insignis  (Blackwall, 1841)

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

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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 2019): North America, Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kyrgystan, China
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1956)

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male Pedipalp
(Azheganova 1968)

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male Pedipalp
(Roberts 1998)

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male Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1953)

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male Pedipalp
(Roberts 1987)

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male Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Leg I, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Femur I, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Habitus, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

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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 Vulva
(Azheganova 1968)

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female Vulva
(Wiehle 1953)

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female Vulva
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

References

Azheganova N S (1968) Kratkii opredelitel' paukov (Aranei) lesnoi i lesostepnoi zony SSSR. Akademia Nauk SSSR: 1-149

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

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

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

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British Spiders 2. Ray Soc London

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Otto S (2017) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 08.2017. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Isaia M (2018) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version June 2018). online at http://www.museoscienzebergamo.it/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=96&Itemid=94 pdf

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

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

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

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

World Spider Catalog (2019) World Spider Catalog, version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.01.2019) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates
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