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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Saloca  Simon, 1926   3 species

Saloca kulczynskii Miller & Kratochvíl, 1939

Description

Prosoma yellow-brown, male: head raised slightly and compressed at sides, a row of stout, forward-directed bristles runs from each posterior median eye to the corresponding anterior median eye. Embolus forming a loop. Legs yellow-brown to grey-brown. Opisthosoma yellowish white to light grey-brown.

Body length male: 1.0-1.2 mm
Body length female: 1.0-1.2 mm
Additional information

Among leaf litter and low vegetation in mountain fir-beech and spruce forests

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Central, Eastern Europe
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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.

Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Ukraine   (Hirna et al., 2016) |||
References

Balogh J, Loksa I (1947) Faunistische Angaben über die Spinnen des Karpatenbeckens II. Fragmenta Faunistica Hungarica 10: 61-68 pdf

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.

Hirna A, Gnelitsa V, Zhukovets E (2016) A checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of the Chornohora Mountain massif (Ukrainian Carpathians). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 16-38 pdf

Miller F (1971) Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306 pdf

Miller F, Kratochvíl J (1939) Einige neue Spinnen aus Mitteleuropa. Sborník Entomologického Oddělení Národního Musea v Praze 17(146): 32-38 pdf

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html pdf

Růžička V (1982) Beitrag zur Erkennung der Gattung Saloca (Araneae, Micryphantidae). Věstník Československé Zoologické Společnosti v Praze 46: 298-303 pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

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

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
30-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
04-03-2016 Distribution update Detail