Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Erigone  Audouin, 1826   28 species

Erigone remota L. Koch, 1869

Description

Male palp with ± parallel sided patellar apophysis. Tibial apophysis with protruding, rounded process. Epigyne with median groove. Epigynal plate roundish posteriorly. Prosoma chestnut-brown, radial stripes and margin darker. Legs yellow-brown to red-brown. Opisthosoma grey-black.

Body length male: 2-2.5 mm
Body length female: 2-2.8 mm
Additional information

High mountain species

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe, Russia (Europe to north-east Siberia), Kyrgyzstan
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Albania   (Vrenozi & Jäger, 2013) ||| Andorra   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Austria   (Thaler, 1999b) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| North Macedonia   (Blagoev, 2002) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Northern   (Marusik et al., 2016a; Koponen et al., 1998) ||| Russia, Novaya Zemlya   (Tanasevitch, 2017b) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) ||| Ukraine   (Mikhailov, 2013) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 pdf

Blagoev G (2002) Check list of Macedonian spiders (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 54: 9-34 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

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

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

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Koh J K H (unpubl.)

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 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

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 pdf

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

Tanasevitch A V (2017b) Spiders (Aranei) of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago and the Vaygach Island, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 26: 145-153 pdf

Thaler K (1999b) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 6. Linyphiidae 2: Erigoninae (sensu Wiehle) (Arachnida: Araneida). Veröffentlichungen des Tiroler Landesmuseums Ferdinandeum 79: 215-264 pdf

Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2013) Spiders (Araneae) from Albania and Kosovo in the collection of Carl Friedrich Roewer. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 46: 17-26 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

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