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Dictynidae  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 / Emblyna  Chamberlin, 1948   4 species

Emblyna mitis (Thorell, 1875)

Description

Cymbium pointed basally. Epigyne with median part diverging anteriorly, with robust bars. Prosoma black-brown, anteriorly with 5 longitudinal stripes consisting of white hairs, posteriorly with black radial pattern. Sternum brown. Chelicerae brown, diverging rhomb-like on the inner side. Legs light brown, with vague dark annulations. Opisthosoma yellowish brown, dorsally with irregular, darker spots, that can be merged to chevrons in posterior part.

Body length male: 2-2.5 mm
Body length female: 2-2.5 mm
Additional information

On low plants, more rarely on trees and bushes.

After Wunderlich (1975) E. mitis is distributed in the Palaearctic and  E. annulipes in the Nearctic region. Thus all European records of annulipes should be counted as mitis.

Distribution
  Presence
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Global distribution (WSC 2026): Norway, Germany, Czechia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
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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.

Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Norway   (Aakra et al., 2016) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Plakkhina et al., 2025) ||| Ukraine   (Thorell, 1875b) |||
References

Aakra K, Morka G H, Antonson A, Farlund M, Wrånes R E, Frølandshagen R, Løvbrekke H, Furuseth P, Fjellberg A, Lemke M, Pfliegler W P, Andersen S, Olsen K M, Aadland B, Berggren K (2016) Spiders new to Norway (Arachnida, Araneae) with ecological, taxonomical and faunistic comments. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 63: 6-43 pdf

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Holm Å (1945) Zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna des Torneträskgebietes. Arkiv för Zoologi 36(A15): 1-80 pdf

Loksa I (1969) Pokok I-Araneae I. Fauna Hungariae 97: 1-133 pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Miller F, Svatoň J (1978) Einige seltene und bisher unbekannte Spinnenarten aus der Slowakei. Annotationes Zoologicae et Botanicae Bratislava 126: 1-19 pdf

Plakkhina E, Sozontov A, Esyunin S, Ivanova N, Shumigay D (2025) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of PSU’s Botanical Garden (Perm, Russia). Biodiversity Data Journal 13 (e163152): 1-20 pdf

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 pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

Thorell T (1875b) Verzeichniss südrussischer Spinnen. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 11: 39-122 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Wunderlich J (1975) Dritter Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna Berlins (Arachnida: Araneae). Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin (N.F.) 15: 39-57 pdf

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