araneae - Midia midas

Description

Male palp with large distal claw. Paracymbium with serrated posterior margin. Epigyne with tongue-shaped scapus. Prosoma yellow-brown. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma grey with pale spots.

Body length male: 2.3-2.8 mm
Body length female: 2.5-4.8 mm

Additional information

Lives on trees, occasionally also found in birds' nests.

Character states from linyphiid key

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2021): Europe

Phenology



Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Figures

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1987)

Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Saaristo & Wunderlich 1995)

Embolic division, dorsal view
(Saaristo & Wunderlich 1995)

Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

Epigyne, lateral view
(Roberts 1987)

Epigyne, ventral view
(Saaristo & Wunderlich 1995)

Epigyne, lateral view
(Saaristo & Wunderlich 1995)

Epigyne, dorsal view
(Saaristo & Wunderlich 1995)

Epigyne, ventral view
(Růžička et al. 1991)

Epigyne, lateral view
(Růžička et al. 1991)

Epigyne, posterior view
(Růžička et al. 1991)

Leg I, prolateral view
(Saaristo & Wunderlich 1995)

Distribution List

Czechia (no references) ||| Denmark (no references) ||| France (no references) ||| Germany (no references) ||| Italy (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Poland (no references) ||| Romania (no references) ||| Slovakia (no references) ||| Spain (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Turkey (Asia) (Danışman et al., 2019) ||| United Kingdom (no references) |||

References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). [N.B.: few records from this paper are not taken over and not commented] Zootaxa 4614: 201-254

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2019) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2019 [last updated 1 June 2019], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp.

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). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152

Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp.

Růžička V, Bohác J, Macek J (1991) Invertebrate animals from hollow trees in the Trebon basin. Sborník Jihočeského Muzea v Českých Budějovicích Přírodní Vědy 31: 33-46

Saaristo M I, Wunderlich J (1995) Midia - a new genus for Lepthyphantes midas Simon 1884 (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 4: 311-314

WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (03.01.2021) doi: 10.24436/2

Midia midas (Simon, 1884)