Pachygnatha listeri Sundevall, 1830
Description
Paracymbium long and pointed, its lateral tooth big and hook-shaped. Epigyne a trapezoid plate. Prosoma reddish yellow, or brown with dark median band, margin not darkened. Sternum dark brown. Chelicerae dark brown. Legs yellow-orange. Opisthosoma grey, mostly with almost black folium dorsally, with bright pairs of spots along median line, folium in females sometimes only vague.
Body length male: 3-4.5 mmBody length female: 4.5-5 mm
Additional information
Mostly in shadowed, humid forests
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wiehle 1963a)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Wiehle 1963a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Roberts 1995)
Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Tip of conductor
(Thaler 1991b)
Tip of conductor
(Wiehle 1963a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Wiehle 1963a)
Chelicera, dorsal view
(Wiehle 1963a)
Chelicera, ventral view
(Wiehle 1963a)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1963a)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)
Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Morano 2020)
Vulva
(Wiehle 1963a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Thaler 1991b)
Vulva, ventral view
(Thaler 1991b)
Receptaculum, dorsal view
(Thaler 1991b)
Chelicera, dorsal view
(Wiehle 1963a)
Chelicera, ventral view
(Wiehle 1963a)
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.
References
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Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
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