Xysticus lineatus (Westring, 1851)
Description
Male
Male palp deeply dark brown with white intersegmental membranes. Tegulum without apophyses. Tibial apophysis bipartite, ventral apophysis furcate in 2 tips, further, lateral apophysis broad, massive and terminally broadly transversely cut, with filiform, bent process attaching dorsally. Conductor very large at the end, sickle-shaped and retrolaterally projecting. Embolus short. Prosoma dark brown, contrastingly cream and white, dorsally with V-shaped pattern and bright eye region in females and black-brown eye field in males. Sternum cream to white and dark brown near coxae, roundish broad, straight anteriorly, hardly spined. Chelicerae dark brown and beige-brown pattern. Legs female: robust, thick and very dark. Male: slender, contrastingly coloured light and dark. Femur I prolaterally only white spotted in distal region. Tarsus and metatarsus strikingly light brown. Opisthosoma dark black-brown with white margin, median with cross-shaped bright area. Spinnerets female: dirty beige, male: brown.
Body length male: 3.3-4.5 mmFemale
Epigyne with longish ± quadrangular groove, defined by broad chitinous wall anteriorly. Vulva like 2 triangles whose broad sides opposite each other.
Body length female: 4.5-7.0 mmAdditional information
In swampy and bog-forest-like habitats, also on heath, sometimes under stones, mesoecious, photophilic, hygrophilic
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Maurer 1975)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Maurer 1975)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1995)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Jantscher 2001a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Jantscher 2001a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ponomarev et al. 2021b)
Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Epigyne
(Maurer 1975)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)
Epigyne
(Jantscher 2001a)
Epigyne
(Jantscher 2001a)
Epigyne
(Jantscher 2001a)
Epigyne
(Jantscher 2001a)
Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Jantscher 2001a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Jantscher 2001a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Jantscher 2001a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Distribution List
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