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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Walckenaeria  Blackwall, 1833   62 species

Walckenaeria karpinskii (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)

Description

Colour, size and most other characters very close to W. clavicornis

Body length male: 2.0-2.3 mm
Body length female: 2.0-2.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Records from UK and the Alps belong to W. clavicornis
Global distribution (WSC 2026): North America, Scandinavia, Lithuania, Russia (Europe to Far East), China, Mongolia
Phenology
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Distribution List
Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Lithuania   (Biteniekytė & Rėlys, 2012) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Central   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Northern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a; Koponen et al., 1998) ||| Svalbard  Removed (Dahl et al., 2018) ||| 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

Biteniekytė M, Rėlys V (2012) The checklist of Lithuanian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Biologija 57: 148-158 pdf

Dahl M T, Yoccoz N G, Aakra K, Coulson S J (2018) The Araneae of Svalbard: the relationships between specific environmental factors and spider assemblages in the High Arctic. Polar Biology 41: 839-853 pdf

Efimik V E, Esyunin S L (1996) A new subgenus and a new species of Walckenaeria Blackwall, 1833, from the Urals with remarks on the distribution of some unicornis-group species in the Palearctic (Aranei Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 5(1/2): 63-73 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.) .

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

Koponen S, Marusik Y M, Tanasevitch A V (1998) New data on the spider fauna of the Polar Urals (Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 6: 109-119 pdf

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

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Millidge A F (1983) The erigonine spiders of North America. Part 6. The genus Walckenaeria Blackwall (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Journal of Arachnology 11: 105-200 pdf

Morka G H (unpubl.)

Parker J R (1969) On the establishment of Cornicularia clavicornis Emerton (Araneae) as a British species. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 1: 49-54 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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