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Mysmenidae  Petrunkevitch, 1928 / Trogloneta  Simon, 1922   1 species

Trogloneta granulum  Simon, 1922

Description

Embolus short. Epigyne without scapus, posterior margin sclerotised. Prosoma brownish yellow, male: with uniformly descending dorsal line, anterior median eyes smaller than other eyes. Legs brownish yellow. Metatarsus I male: with thorn. Opisthosoma whitish.

Body length male: 0.9 mm
Body length female: 1.1 mm
Additional information

In litter layer of subalpine beech forests, in blocky debris, 700-1000 m a.s.l. This species constructs three-dimensional webs, resembling (if viewed from above) the small orbs built by orb-weavers of some Araneidae.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Europe
Phenology
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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.

Austria   (Thaler, 1975a) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France   (Thaler, 1975a) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019; Thaler, 1975a) ||| Northern Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| United Kingdom   (Gallon, 2020; Lavery, 2019) |||
References

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

Breuss W (2001) Bemerkenswerte Spinnen aus Vorarlberg (Österreich) - I (Arachnida: Araneae: Lycosidae, Theridiidae, Mysmenidae, Gnaphosidae, Salticidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 88: 183-193 pdf

Gallon R C (2020) Trogloneta granulum Simon, 1922 in North Wales (Araneae, Mysmenidae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 147: 15-16 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

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

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 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

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 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

Thaler K (1975a) Trogloneta granulum Simon, eine weitere Reliktart der Nordostalpen (Arachnida, Aranei, "Symphytognathidae"). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 82: 283-291 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

Wunderlich J (1980d) Über europäische Symphytognathidae (Arach.: Araneae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 23: 259-273 pdf

Updates
09-05-2020 Distribution update Detail
09-05-2020 Image insert
18-12-2014 Image insert