Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Caracladus  Simon, 1884   3 species

Caracladus leberti  (Roewer, 1942)

Description
Male

Characteristic male cephalic lobe with a small upwards and forwards facing bump between the posterior median eyes. Palp: Resembles C. avicula. Embolus rather robust and straight, tailpiece is much shorter than in C. avicula and marginal suprategular apophysis can clearly be seen. Prosoma length: 0.8 mm, prosoma width: 0.6 mm.

Body length male: 1.9 mm
Female

Resembles C. avicula. Epigyne: Dorsal plate of epigyne nearly triangular and with a small copulatory opening. Form of copulatory pouches barely visible in ventral view and copulatory duct more robust. Prosoma length: 0.8 mm, prosoma width: 0.6 mm.

Body length female: 1.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Western, Central Europe
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.

Austria   (no references) ||| France   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Liechtenstein   (Frick & Muff, 2009) ||| Switzerland   (no references) |||
References

Frick H, Muff P (2009) Revision of the genus Caracladus with the description of Caracladus zamoniensis spec. nov. (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae). Zootaxa 1982: 1-37 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

Thaler K (1973a) Über wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen, III (Arachn., Aranei, Erigonidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 60: 41-60 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
05-04-2023 Distribution update Detail
21-11-2020 Datasheet update Detail
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail