Agyneta mossica (Schikora, 1993)
Description
Male palp with almost rectangularly bent or curved lamella characteristica. Tibial apophysis bent. Prosoma grey-yellow, with dark pattern. Sternum and legs slightly darker. Opisthosoma dorsally grey-green, ventrally darker.
Body length male: 1.75-2.02 mmBody length female: 1.7-2 mm
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Schikora 1993)
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Schikora 2009)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Lamella characteristica
(Schikora 1993)
Paracymbium
(Aakra 2000b)
Paracymbium
( )
Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Cymbium, prolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Tibial apophysis
(Schikora 1993)
Habitus
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, antero-ventral view
(Schikora 1993)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Schikora 2009)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, antero-ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Morka unpubl.)
Vulva
(Aakra 2000b)
Vulva
(Schikora 1993)
Vulva
(Schikora 1993)
Vulva
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva, anterior view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
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
Biteniekytė M, Rėlys V (2012) The checklist of Lithuanian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Biologija 57: 148-158
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
Gajdoš P, Svatoň J (2007) Supplementary records to catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Entomofauna Carpathica 19: 21-26
Hirna A, Gnelitsa V, Zhukovets E (2016) A checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of the Chornohora Mountain massif (Ukrainian Carpathians). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 16-38
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
Koponen S, Marusik Y M, Tanasevitch A V (1998) New data on the spider fauna of the Polar Urals (Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 6: 109-119
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
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Marusik Y M, Koponen S, Makarova O L (2016a) A survey of spiders (Araneae) collected on the arctic island of Dolgiy (69°12′N), Barents Sea. Arachnology 17: 10-24
Morka G H (unpubl.)
Nekhaeva A A (2020) On the spider fauna (Arachnida: Aranei) of the Kanin Peninsula and Kolguev Island, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 29: 387-398
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
Schikora H B (1993) Meioneta mossica sp.n., a new spider close to M. saxatilis (Blackwall) from northern and central Europe. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9: 157-163
Schikora H-B (1997) Wachsende Regenmoorflächen im Zehlaubruch (Kaliningrad-Region): Extremlebensraum für epigäische Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae)? Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 27: 447-452
Schikora H-B (2009) Postembryonic development, life cycle, and diagnostic characters of the linyphiid spider Meioneta mossica Schikora, 1993 (Arachnida: Araneae). Contributions to Natural History 12: 1179-1206
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
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