Piratula hygrophila (Thorell, 1872)
Description
Prosoma dark brown to black, with distinct bands of prosoma. Legs distinctly annulated (mainly femur). Opisthosoma with bright spots on both sides of median line.
Body length male: 4.5-5.5 mmBody length female: 5.0-6.0 mm
Additional information
In humid and shadowed habitats like bog forests or on the ground of riparian zone
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Loksa 1972)
Pedipalp
(Wiebes 1959)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Dahl 1937)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Locket & Millidge 1951)
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1995)
Pedipalp
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Embolus
(Loksa 1972)
Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1998)
Epigyne
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Epigyne
(Loksa 1972)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1951)
Epigyne
(Wiebes 1959)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva
(Dahl 1937)
Vulva
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Vulva
(Loksa 1972)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Prosoma, frontal view
(Zyuzin 1985)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Sternum
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
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.
References
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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)
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Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152
Dahl M (1937) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VIII: Hahniidae, Argyronetidae. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 100-118
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Fuhn I E, Niculescu-Burlacu F (1971) Fam. Lycosidae. Fauna Republicii Socialiste România (Arachnida) 5 (3): 1-253
Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin
Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311
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Locket G H, Millidge A F (1951) British spiders. Vol. I. Ray Society, London, 310 pp.
Loksa I (1972) Pokok II-Araneae II. Fauna Hungariae 109: 1-112
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna].
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Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
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.
Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.
Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.
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Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
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Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2013) Spiders (Araneae) from Albania and Kosovo in the collection of Carl Friedrich Roewer. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 46: 17-26
Wiebes J T (1959) The Lycosidae and Pisauridae (Araneae) of the Netherlands. Zoologische Verhandelingen 42: 1-78
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
Zyuzin A A (1985) Generic and subfamilial criteria in the systematics of the spider family Lycosidae (Aranei), with the description of a new genus and two new subfamilies. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Leningrad 139: 40-51
Updates
| 20-06-2021 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 24-12-2015 | Image insert | |
| 30-11-2015 | Image insert | |
| 14-01-2014 | Image insert |