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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Semljicola  Strand, 1906   10 species

Semljicola latus (Holm, 1939)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012612

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Description
Male

Tibial apophysis rounded at the end.
Prosoma brown, with narrow, weakly developed median spot, lateral margin black. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma female: grey-brown, male: grey-black.

Body length male: 1.7-1.8 mm
Female

Epigyne with mostly uncovered median part. 

Body length female: 1.7-1.8 mm
Additional information

in moss and litter layer of subalpine heathland as well as birch and pine forests

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Scandinavia, Russia (Europe to north-eastern Siberia), Kazakhstan, Mongolia
Figures
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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Holm 1943)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Holm 1943)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Saaristo & Eskov 1996)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Saaristo & Eskov 1996)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Tip of pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Part of embolus
(Holm 1943)

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male Tegular apophysis
(Holm 1943)

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male Palpal tibia
(Holm 1943)

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male Palpal tibia
(Saaristo & Eskov 1996)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Morka unpubl.)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Holm 1943)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Saaristo & Eskov 1996)

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female Epigyne
(Holm 1943)

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female Epigyne
(Saaristo & Eskov 1996)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Morka unpubl.)

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female Vulva
(Holm 1939)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Morka unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Morka unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Distribution List
Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Northern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
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

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

Fjellberg A (unpubl.) .

Holm Å (1939) Neue Spinnen aus Schweden. Beschreibung neuer Arten der Familien Drassidae, Theridiidae, Linyphiidae und Micryphantidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 31(A8): 1-38 pdf

Holm Å (1943) Zur Kenntnis der Taxonomie, Ökologie und Verbreitung der schwedischen Arten der Spinnengattungen Rhaebothorax Sim., Typhochrestus Sim. und Latithorax n. gen. Arkiv för Zoologi 34(A19): 1-32 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

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Morka G H (unpubl.)

Saaristo M I, Eskov K Y (1996) Taxonomy and zoogeography of the hypoarctic erigonine spider genus Semljicola (Araneida, Linyphiidae). Acta Zoologica Fenninca 201: 47-69 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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