Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Janetschekia  Schenkel, 1939   1 species

Janetschekia monodon  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)

Description

Prosoma shiny brown-black with blackish pattern. Sternum and chelicerae brownish yellow, sometimes darkened. Legs brownish yellow, sometimes darkened. Opisthosoma blackish, lung-covers yellowish.

Body length male: 1.5 mm
Body length female: 1.8 mm
Additional information

in glacier forefields of the Alps in rocky debris areas with poor vegetation, gravely river banks, also directly on border of glacier, 250-3400m; also on gravel roofs (Komposch 2004).

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Albania
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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.

Albania   (Komnenov, 2018) ||| Austria   (no references) ||| France   (Michaud, 2021) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Switzerland   (no references) |||
References

Komnenov M (2018) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the floodplains of the Vjosa river, south Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 197-212 pdf

Komposch C (2004) Die Spinnenfauna (Araneae). Naturdach Kraftwerk Friesach. Sukzessionsstudie. Forschung im Verbund 87: 24-43 pdf

Michaud A (2021) Découverte en France de Janetschekia monodon (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 8: 2-5 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

Thaler K (1969) Über einige wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus Tirol (Arachn., Araneae, Erigonidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 57: 195-219 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
24-11-2021 Distribution update Detail
24-11-2021 Distribution insert Detail
24-11-2021 Image insert
02-12-2018 Image insert
02-12-2018 Distribution update Detail