Liocranidae  Simon, 1897 / Agroeca  Westring, 1861   12 species

Agroeca dentigera  Kulczyński, 1913

Description

Tibial apophysis with typical broad, blunt shape, with robust transverse branch. Epigyne slightly heart-shaped with eyelid-like structures near median line. Prosoma with fine, dark contour, anterior eye row almost straight, posterior row procurved. Sternum red-brown. Legs red-brown, not annulated. Femur with 3 dorsal spines. Opisthosoma light grey to light brown with a vague median line and irregular dark spots.

Body length male: 4.5-5.8 mm
Body length female: 5.45-6.8 mm
Additional information

on heath bushes near sphagnum bog, winter-active

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Europe, Turkey, China
Phenology
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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.

Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Estonia   (Sammet et al., 2023) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Latvia   (Cera, 2018) ||| Lithuania   (no references) ||| Netherlands   (no references) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Russia, Central   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Gündüz & Allahverdi, 2018a) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69 pdf

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152 pdf

Felton C, Judd S, Merrett P (2004) Agroeca dentigera Kulczynski, 1913, a liocranid spider new to Britain (Araneae, Liocranidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 90-92 pdf

Gündüz G, Allahverdi H (2018a) Two new records of the genus Agroeca Westring, 1861 (Araneae: Liocranidae) from Turkey. Munis Entomology and Zoology 13: 181-184 pdf

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311 pdf

Jocqué R (1977b) On the occurrence of Agroeca dentigera Kulczynski in Belgium (Araneae, Clubionidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 80-82 pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Mu Y, Jin C, Zhang F (2019) A survey of Agroeca Westring, 1861 from China (Araneae: Liocranidae). Zootaxa 4615: 91-112 pdf

Oltean C (1973a) Agroeca dentigera Kulczynski 1913 (Aran., Clubionidae) eine seltener Art, neue für die rumäniens Fauna. Studii şi Cercetăride Biologie (Zool.) 25: 105-110 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

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

Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. pdf

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html pdf

Sammet K, Martinez M R, Tali K, Melts I (2023) New records of arthropods from the priority Natura 2000 habitats in Estonian coastal areas. Check List 19: 1029-1048 pdf

Sterghiu C (1985) Fam. Clubionidae. Fauna Republicii Socialiste România (Arachnida) 5 (4): 1-168 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
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13-06-2019 Image insert
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