Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Wabasso  Millidge, 1984   2 species

Wabasso replicatus (Holm, 1950)

Description
Male

Male palp with long, distally hooked lobe with 2 long hairs at its end. Tibial apophysis with a short, broad, flat, dorsal part and a short, rounded, dorsolateral part with 2 trichobothria. Embolus slender, with sclerotised apophysis on its base.

Prosoma yellow-brown to dark yellow-brown with grey stripes. Legs yellow-brown, to dark yellow-brown, suffused with grey. Metatarsus I male: distally with 2 robust spines. Opisthosoma grey-black.

Body length male: 1.1-1.4 mm
Female

Epigyne broad with almost triangular scapus, which is slightly bent upwards on end. 

Body length female: 1.2-1.7 mm
Additional information

in rather dry lichen-rich habitats, but mainly in bogs with sphagnum and small bushes

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Records of W. quaestio from Europe belong to W. replicatus
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Iceland, Britain, Scandinavia, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Iceland   (Agnarsson, 1996) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Northern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 pdf

Agnarsson I (1996) Íslenskar köngulær Fjölrit Náttúrufræðistofnunar 31: 1-175 pdf

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp. 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

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Merrett P, Dawson I K (2005) Revalidation of Wabasso replicatus (Holm, 1950), and description from Britain (Araneae: Linyphiidae) Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 117-121 pdf

Morka G H (unpubl.)

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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