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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Semljicola  Strand, 1906   10 species

Semljicola lapponicus  (Holm, 1939)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012611

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Description

Palp male: tibia apically with slender groove. Epigyne with median plate longer than wide. Prosoma dark brown, with black pattern. Sternum black-brown. Chelicerae light brown. Legs brown. Opisthosoma grey.

Body length male: 1.7-1.8 mm
Body length female: 1.8 mm
Additional information

in sphagnum moss bogs.

 

Figure of vulva (Fig. 4a) by Holm (1945) shows S. angulatus instead of S. lapponicus (Løvbrekke pers. comm., contra Platnick (2013))

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Scandinavia, Russia (Europe to Far East), USA (Alaska)
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Saaristo & Eskov 1996)

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male Pedipalp
(Saaristo & Eskov 1996)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Morka unpubl.)

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male Tip of pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Holm 1963)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Holm 1963)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Morka unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Holm 1963)

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female Epigyne
(Saaristo & Eskov 1996)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva
(Holm 1963)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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.

Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 pdf

Fjellberg A (unpubl.)

Holm Å (1963) Spiders of the genus Eboria Falc. (Araneae: Erigonidae). Entomologisk Tidskrift 84: 266-281 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 (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Morka G H (unpubl.)

Saaristo M I, Eskov K Y (1996) Taxonomy and zoogeography of the hypoarctic erigonine spider genus Semljicola (Araneida, Linyphiidae). Acta Zoologica Fenninca 201: 47-69 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

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