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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Midia  Saaristo & Wunderlich, 1995   1 species

Midia midas  (Simon, 1884)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011847

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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
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1987)

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male Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Saaristo & Wunderlich 1995)

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male Embolic division, dorsal view
(Saaristo & Wunderlich 1995)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Roberts 1987)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Saaristo & Wunderlich 1995)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Saaristo & Wunderlich 1995)

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female Epigyne, dorsal view
(Saaristo & Wunderlich 1995)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Růžička et al. 1991)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Růžička et al. 1991)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Růžička et al. 1991)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Janssen & Crevecoeur 2020)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Janssen & Crevecoeur 2020)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Janssen & Crevecoeur 2020)

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female Leg I, prolateral view
(Saaristo & Wunderlich 1995)

Distribution List
Belgium   (Janssen & Crevecoeur, 2020) ||| 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., 2021a) ||| United Kingdom   (no references) |||
References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2021a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2021 [last updated 1 January 2021], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Janssen M, Crevecoeur L (2020) Midia midas (Simon, 1884) (Araneae, Linyphiidae), a species new to the Belgian spider fauna. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 35: 83-88 pdf

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

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 pdf

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

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 pdf

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

WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.09.2021) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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