Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Theonina  Simon, 1929   4 species

Theonina kratochvili Miller & Weiss, 1979

Description

Embolus thin, S-shaped. Epigyne with scapus, ± as long as wide. Prosoma dark grey-green to brown with blackish dorsal spot and radial stripes. Sternum dark brown, shiny. Chelicerae brown, long and robust. Legs yellowish-brown, thin. Opisthosoma dark grey to black.

Body length male: 1.3-1.8 mm
Body length female: 1.3-1.8 mm
Additional information

in dry and warm forest edges

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Central Europe to Greece and Ukraine, Russia (Europe, Caucasus)
Phenology
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Distribution List
Austria   (Schaberreiter, 1999) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Georgia   (Ponomarev & Komarov, 2015; Otto, 2022) ||| Greece   (van Helsdingen et al., 2018) ||| Hungary   (Szinetár & Kovács, 2013) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2017) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp. pdf

Gnelitsa V A (2009a) A survey of Crimean Linyphiidae (Aranei). 1. On seven rare and little known linyphiids from Crimea. Arthropoda Selecta 17: 191-202 pdf

Helsdingen P J van, IJland S, Komnenov M (2018) Inventory of the spiders (Araneae) of the border region of northern Greece with Albania and FYR Macedonia. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 37: 5-23 pdf

Komnenov M (2017) New data on spider fauna (Araneae) of Shar Mountain, north-western Macedonia. Proceedings of the 5th Congress of the Ecologists of Macedonia, with international participation (Ohrid, 19th-22nd October 2016). Special issues of the Macedonian Ecological Society 13: 44-61 pdf

Miller F, Weiss I (1979) Neue Angaben für die Gattung Theonina Simon und Meioneta Hull aus Mitteleuropa. Věstník Československé Zoologické Společnosti v Praze 43: 30-34 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Ponomarev A V, Komarov Y E (2015) Spiders (Aranei) of the Republic of South Ossetia. The South of Russia: Ecology, Development 10(1): 116-147 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

Schaberreiter I (1999) Bestandsaufnahme ausgewählter epigäischer Arthropodengruppen in einem Föhrenwald auf dem Eichkogel (Mödling, Niederösterreich). 1. Araneae. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Österreich 136: 87-108 pdf

Szinetár C, Kovács P (2013) Pókfaunisztikai vizsgálatok a szentbékkállai Fekete-hegyen [The arachnological results of the 5th Hungarian Biodiversity Day at Fekete Hill (Balaton Uplands)]. Folia Musei Historico-Naturalis Bakonyiensis 29: 65-72 pdf

Tanasevitch A V (1987a) The linyphiid spiders of the Caucasus, USSR (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 67: 297-383 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 (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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