Tibellus maritimus (Menge, 1875)
Description
Embolus thick, basally with transverse folds. Epigyne with median part longer than wide. Prosoma light yellow, with broad, dark median stripe, laterally with longitudinal row of dark spots, males normally more intensely patterned and darker than females. Legs yellowish, sometimes with fine darker spots. Opisthosoma light yellow, sometimes reddish, dorsally with brown median stripes, laterally with longitudinal row of dark spots.
Body length male: 5.5-6.5 mmBody length female: 6.5-12.5 mm
Additional information
On grass in both humid and dry, but sunny places
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1951)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azheganova 1968)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1995)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Efimik 1999)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Efimik 1999)
Pedipalp
(Brændegaard 1966)
Pedipalp
(Efimik 1999)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Iorio unpubl.)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Embolus
(Efimik 1999)
Embolus
(Efimik 1999)
Cymbium
(Efimik 1999)
Epigyne
(Aakra 2000b)
Epigyne
(Brændegaard 1966)
Epigyne
(Efimik 1999)
Epigyne
(Efimik 1999)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1951)
Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva, ventral view
(Efimik 1999)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Efimik 1999)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus
(Locket & Millidge 1951)
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
Aakra K (2000b) Agyneta mossica (Schikora, 1993) (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in Norway. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 47: 95-99 
Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129
Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244
Azheganova N S (1968) Kratkii opredelitel' paukov (Aranei) lesnoi i lesostepnoi zony SSSR. Akademia Nauk SSSR, 149pp.
Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018)
Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Brændegaard J (1966) Edderkopper: Eller Spindlere I Danmarks Fauna 72: 1-224
Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152
Dentici A, Galasso P (2021) Checklist of spiders and Opiliones (Arachnida Araneae, Opiliones) of Sicilian southest swamp lakes "Pantano Cuba", "Pantano Longarini" and “Pantano Bruno” (Italy). Fifth contribution to knowledge of Sicilian spider fauna Biodiversity Journal 21: 695-703
Efimik V E (1999) A review of the spider genus Tibellus Simon, 1875 of the East Palaearctic (Aranei: Philodromidae). Arthropoda Selecta 8: 103-124
Gajić I, Grbić G (2016) Further notes on spiders from the Special Nature Reserve Zasavica (Serbia). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 49-56
Iorio E (unpubl.) .
Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311
Katušić L (2008) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) on flooded and non-flooded meadows in Lonjsko Polje Nature Park, Croatia. Natura Croatica 17: 113-130
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
Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001]
Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212
Locket G H, Millidge A F (1951) British spiders. Vol. I. Ray Society, London, 310 pp.
Logunov D V, Huseynov E F (2008) A faunistic review of the spider family Philodromidae (Aranei) of Azerbaijan. Arthropoda Selecta 17: 117-131
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.
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
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
Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
Van Keer J, Van Keer K, De Koninck H, Ramel G (2010) The arachnofauna (Araneae) of wetland Kerkini (Macedonia-Northern Central Greece). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 62: 141-160
Vasiliev A I, Mikhailov K G (2023) Annotated checklist of spiders (Araneae) of the Republic of Moldova. Invertebrate Zoology 20: 307-342
WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2
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