Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Karita  Tanasevitch, 2007   1 species

Karita paludosa  (Duffey, 1971)

Description

Tibial apophysis bipartite, tooth-shaped. Epigyne with only slightly curved posterior margin. Prosoma yellowish-brown, with dark radial stripes and margin. Legs yellowish-brown. Opisthosoma grey.

Body length male: 1.4 mm
Body length female: 1.6 mm
Additional information

Prefers humid conditions, in moss and fallen leaves

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Norway: Harald Løvbrekke (2017) pers. comm.
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Ireland, Britain, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Scandinavia, Russia (West 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.

Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Northern Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Norway   (Løvbrekke, unpubl.) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka, 2012a) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69 pdf

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F, Merrett P (1974) British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp. pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

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

Rozwałka R (2012a) First record of Karita paludosa (Duffey, 1971) (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in Poland. Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego, Acta Biologica 19: 71-75 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
06-03-2023 Distribution update Detail
13-12-2017 Image insert
13-12-2017 Distribution update Detail
24-01-2017 Distribution update Detail