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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Pelecopsis  Simon, 1864   41 species

Pelecopsis loksai Szinetár & Samu, 2003

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038570

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Description
Male

Tip if embolus short and sickle-shaped. Tibial apophysis thin. Prosoma with extended cephalic region. Sternum dark grey with small yellow patches, margin black. Legs yellow. Opisthosoma grey.

Body length male: 1.45-1.6 mm
Female

Round spermathecae visible through cuticle. Colour as in males

Body length female: 1.22-1.47 mm
Additional information

In open calcareous rock grassland.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, North Macedonia, Bulgaria
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Szinetár & Samu 2003)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Szinetár & Samu 2003)

species

male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Szinetár & Samu 2003)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Szinetár & Samu 2003)

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female Epigyne
(Szinetár & Samu 2003)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Szinetár & Samu 2003)

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female Prosoma, dorsal view
(Szinetár & Samu 2003)

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female Prosoma, lateral view
(Szinetár & Samu 2003)

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.

Bulgaria   (Naumova et al., 2021) ||| Hungary   (Szinetár & Samu, 2003) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Serbia   (Grbić et al., 2015) ||| Slovakia   (Svatoň et al., 2009) |||
References

Grbić G, Hänggi A, Savić D (2015) New faunistic records of spiders (Arachnida, Areneae [sic]) from the Fruška Gora mountain, northern Serbia. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 67: 479-486 pdf

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Naumova M, Blagoev G, Deltshev D (2021) Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984: 228-257 pdf

Svatoň J, Gajdoš P, Černecká L, Franc V, Korenko S, Kovalčík R, Krumpálová Z (2009) Pavúky – Araneae. In: Mašán P, Mihál I (eds.), Pavúkovce Cerovej Vrchoviny. Arachnids of the Cerová Vrchovina Highland (Arachnida: Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones, Opiliones, Acari), Institute of Forest Ecology, Zvolen: 21-123 pdf

Szinetár C, Samu F (2003) Pelecopsis loksai sp. n., a new erigonine spider from Hungary (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 412-414 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

Updates
10-06-2021 Distribution insert Detail
21-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
05-01-2016 Distribution update Detail
30-09-2015 Distribution update Detail