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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Centromerus  Dahl, 1886   71 species

Centromerus cavernarum  (L. Koch, 1872)

Description

Male palp with long and bent basal apophysis. Paracymbium distally with 2-4 denticles. Prosoma yellowish-brown. Sternum light yellow. Chelicerae yellow, relatively small. Legs yellow, robust. Opisthosoma grey, sometimes lighter yellowish.

Body length male: 1.5-1.8 mm
Body length female: 1.3-1.8 mm
Additional information

In thick and humid leaf litter of forests, also in entrance areas of caves.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Europe
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
mostly in autumn
Figures
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.

Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Austria   (no references) ||| Bosnia and Herzegovina   (Naumova et al., 2016a) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia  Removed (Katušić, unpubl.; Deltshev, 2008b) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France   (Michaud, 2022) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Montenegro   (no references) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2017) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Serbia   (no references) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| Ukraine   (Gnelitsa, 2004b) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 pdf

Balogh J, Loksa I (1947) Faunistische Angaben über die Spinnen des Karpatenbeckens II. Fragmenta Faunistica Hungarica 10: 61-68 pdf

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Deltshev C D (2008b) Faunistic diversity and zoogeography of cave-dwelling spiders on the Balkan Peninsula. p. 327-348. In: Makarov S E & Dimitrijevic R N (Eds): Advances in arachnology and developmental biology. Papers dedicated to Prof. Dr. Božidar Curcic. Monographs 12. 517 pp. pdf

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 pdf

Dumitrescu M, Georgescu M (1980) Quelques espèces du genre Centromerus (Araneae, Linyphiidae) trouvées en Roumanie. Travaux de l’Institut de Spéologie “Émile Racovitza” 19: 103-123 pdf

Gnelitsa V A (2004b) [Preliminary data on spiders of the family Linyphiidae of the Vyzhnitsky National Nature Park (Carpathians, Ukraine)]. Nature Reserves in Ukraine 10: 86-89 pdf

Katušić L (unpubl.) .

Komnenov M (2017) New data on spider fauna (Araneae) of Shar Mountain, north-western Macedonia. Proceedings of the 5th Congress of the Ecologists of Macedonia, with international participation (Ohrid, 19th-22nd October 2016). Special issues of the Macedonian Ecological Society 13: 44-61 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

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

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp. pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 pdf

Michaud A (2022) Découverte en France de Formiphantes lephthyphantiformis (Strand, 1907) (Araneae, Linyphiidae) et affirmation de la présence de Clubiona saxatilis L. Koch, 1867 (Araneae, Clubionidae) et de Centromerus cavernarum (L. Koch, 1872) (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 9: 2-7 pdf

Miller F (1958a) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der tschechoslovakischen Spinnenarten aus der Gattung Centromerus Dahl. Časopis Československé Společnosti Entomologické 55: 71-91 pdf

Naumova M V, Lazarov S, Petrov B, Deltshev C (2016a) New faunistic data on the cave-dwelling spiders in the Balkan Peninsula (Araneae). Ecologia Montenegrina 7: 425-438 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp. 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

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

Wiehle H (1956) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, X. 28: Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1-337 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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