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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Maro  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1907   6 species

Maro lehtineni Saaristo, 1971

Description

Male palp with simple lamella characteristica, lateral margins without prongs. Epigyne with curved posterior margin. Prosoma light orange to yellow. Sternum yellowish, sometimes stronger coloured than prosoma. Chelicerae yellowish. Legs yellowish. Opisthosoma white.

Body length male: 1.1-1.3 mm
Body length female: 1.0-1.1 mm
Additional information

In short moss of forests.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe (Central and Northern)
Phenology
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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.

Austria   (Thaler, 1995) ||| Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Iceland   (Agnarsson, 1996) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Poland   (Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2015) ||| Russia, Northern   (Osipov, 2019) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš & Svatoň, 2007) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Bolzern et al., 2005) |||
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

Agnarsson I (1996) Íslenskar köngulær Fjölrit Náttúrufræðistofnunar 31: 1-175 pdf

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Bolzern A, Hänggi A, Kropf C, Frick H (2005) Erstnachweis von Maro lehtineni Saaristo, 1971 für die Schweiz (Arachnida, Araneae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 78: 165-172 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69 pdf

Fjellberg A (unpubl.) .

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J (2007) Supplementary records to catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Entomofauna Carpathica 19: 21-26 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.)

Osipov D V (2019) [Spiders (Aranei) of the Lapland Nature Reserve] Works of the Lapland State Nature Biosphere Reserve 7: 119-194 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

Saaristo M I (1971) Revision of the genus Maro O. P.-Cambridge (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Annales Zoologici Fennici 8: 463-482 pdf

Thaler K (1983a) Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde in Nordtirol (Österreich) und Nachbarländern: Deckennetzspinnen, Linyphiidae (Arachnida: Aranei). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 63: 135-167 pdf

Thaler K (1995) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 5. Linyphiidae 1: Linyphiinae (sensu Wiehle) (Arachnida: Araneida). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 82: 153-190 pdf

Wiśniewski K, Wesołowska W (2015) Maro lehtineni (Araneae: Linyphiidae) - a spider species new to the fauna of Poland. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 50: 81-84 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

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