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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Collinsia  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1913   10 species

Collinsia spetsbergensis (Thorell, 1871)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009971

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Description
Male

Prosoma unmodified. Opisthosoma without scutum, dark, without pattern. Palp with long transparent tapering lamella. Tibial apophysis sharp. Paracymbium simple, smaller than tibia.

Body length male: 1.8-2.0 mm
Female

Opisthosoma without scutum. Prosoma unmodified. Epigyne with long transverse furrow and lack of median furrow. Pre-epigastric field unmodified.

Body length female: 2.0-2.4 mm
Additional information

In Scandinavia exclusively in lichen vegetation above 1400 m altitude. In Ellesmere Is. specimens were found in river deltas with fine, muddy sand covered with dense Equisetum and some Salix.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Northern Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East)
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Agnarsson 1996)

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male Pedipalp
(Breuss 2004)

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male Pedipalp
(Breuss 2004)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Aadland unpubl.)

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male Embolic division
(Holm 1958b)

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male Paracymbium
(Holm 1958b)

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male Tegular apophysis
(Holm 1958b)

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male Palpal tibia
(Breuss 2004)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Agnarsson 1996)

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female Epigyne
(Agnarsson 1996)

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female Epigyne
(Breuss 2004)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva
(Breuss 2004)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Distribution List
Iceland   (Agnarsson, 1996) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Franz Jozef Land   (Breuss, 2004) ||| Russia, Northern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Novaya Zemlya   (Tanasevitch, 2017b) ||| Svalbard   (Holm, 1958b) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
References

Aadland B (unpubl.) .

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

Breuss W (2004) Eine Ausbeute von Spinnen (Arachnida, Araneae) von Franz-Josef-Land (Russland). In Thaler, K. (ed.), Diversität und Biologie von Webspinnen, Skorpionen under anderen Spinnentieren. Denisia 12: 535-545 pdf

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

Holm Å (1958b) The spiders of the Isfjord region of Spitsbergen. Zoologiska Bidrag från Uppsala 33: 29-67 pdf

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

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Tanasevitch A V (2017b) Spiders (Aranei) of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago and the Vaygach Island, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 26: 145-153 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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