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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Pocadicnemis  Simon, 1884   4 species

Pocadicnemis carpatica (Chyzer, 1894)

Description
Male

Male palp with asymmetric cymbium, distally broad and indented.
Prosoma dark brown, with blackish median spot, radial stripes and margin. Opisthosoma dark grey to black.

Body length male: 2.0 mm
Female

Epigyne distinct, with circular median plate. 

Body length female: 2.0 mm
Additional information

Amongst grass on sunny slopes in the mountains

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Central Europe, Ukraine, Romania
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Austria   (Zulka, 1992) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) ||| Ukraine   (Hirna & Zhukovets, 2022; Hirna et al., 2016) |||
References

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp. pdf

Heimer S (1978) Zur intragenerischen Isolation der Arten der Gattung Pocadicnemis Simon 1884. Zoologische Abhandlungen, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 35: 101-112 pdf

Hirna A, Gnelitsa V, Zhukovets E (2016) A checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of the Chornohora Mountain massif (Ukrainian Carpathians). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 16-38 pdf

Hirna A, Zhukovets E (2022) Catalogue of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Lviv oblast (Ukraine). National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians, Lviv, 311 pp. pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Rozwałka R (2008) Pocadicnemis carpatica (Chyzer, 1894) (Araneae: Linyphiidae) - a new species of spider to the fauna of Poland. Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin-Polonia C 63: 129-132 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

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 pdf

Wiehle H (1967) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der deutschen Spinnenfauna V. Senckenbergiana Biologica 48: 1-36 pdf

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

Zulka K P (1992) Pocadicnemis carpathica (Chyzer) und andere bemerkenswerte Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae, Linyphiidae) aus dem Rax-Gebiet (Niederösterreich). Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Österreich 129: 95-103 pdf

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