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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Mughiphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1999   28 species

Mughiphantes sobrius  (Thorell, 1871)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011909

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Description
Male

With conspicuous design. Palp: tibia as long as wide, retrolaterally protruding hump-like. Cymbium with retrolateral lobe, proximally with low transversal bulge. Transversal branch of paracymbium with characteristical teeth, terminal branch with large side wing. Complicated Terminal apophysis. Embolus distally widened, with sickle-shaped dorsal extension.

Body length male: 2.8-2.9 mm
Female

With conspicuous design. Epigyne: corpus elevated, median plate low and depressed. Scape emerging from anterior border of corpus, proximal part of corpus with concave lateral borders, distal part short and voluminous, with long stretcher.

Body length female: 2.5-2.9 mm
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Europe: Svalbard, Dolgy Is., Novaya Zemlya
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Norway (Svalbard), Russia (northern Europe to Far North East)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Thaler 1975b)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

male Lamella characteristica
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

male Paracymbium
(Thaler 1975b)

species

male Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Epigyne/vulva
(Thaler 1975b)

species

female Epigyne, lateral view
(Thaler 1975b)

species

female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Epigyne, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Thaler 1975b)

species

female Vulva, 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.

Russia, Northern   (Marusik et al., 2016a) ||| Russia, Novaya Zemlya   (Tanasevitch, 2017b) ||| Svalbard   (Holm, 1958b) |||
References

Holm Å (1958b) The spiders of the Isfjord region of Spitsbergen. Zoologiska Bidrag från Uppsala 33: 29-67 pdf

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 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 (1975b) Über einige Spinnen aus Spitzbergen (Arachnida, Aranei). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 48: 437-442 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
15-08-2023 Distribution update Detail
24-05-2020 Distribution update Detail
28-09-2016 Datasheet update Detail
11-05-2016 Distribution update Detail
24-06-2014 Distribution update Detail
26-03-2013 Image insert
23-03-2013 Distribution update Detail