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Araniella proxima (Kulczyński, 1885)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015331

Description

Male palp with long median apophysis, uniformly bent sickle-like toward tip. Epigyne with narrow scapus (1/2 width of epigyne at most), tapering and reaching far beyond epigyne. Epigyne deeply incised on both sides of scapus and with strongly sclerotised tails. Prosoma light brown to brown, male: almost always with dark marginal band. Opisthosoma dorsally with 0-4 pairs of black lateral spots, ventrally almost unexceptionally without distinct spots within (not always) dark median field.

Body length male: 4.5-5.5 mm
Body length female: 6.0-8.0 mm

Additional information

Mainly in the mountains. Biology mostly unknown

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2024): North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Turkey, Kazakhstan

Phenology



Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Figures

Pedipalp
(Azheganova 1968)

Pedipalp
(Roberts 1998)

Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

Pedipalp
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Pedipalp, caudal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Pedipalp, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)

Pedipalp, ventro-retrolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)

Pedipalp, caudal view
(Loria 2023)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Loria 2023)

Tip of bulbus, caudal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Bulbus
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Median apophysis
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Epigyne
(Azheganova 1968)

Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

Epigyne
(Roberts 1998)

Epigyne, posterior view
(Almquist 2006)

Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Epigyne, posterior view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Epigyne, proximal view
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

Epigyne, anterior view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)

Epigyne, lateral view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)

Epigyne, posterior view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)

Epigyne, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)

Vulva, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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 (Sacher, 1990; Blick, 2018) ||| Austria (no references) ||| Belarus (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Belgium (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Bulgaria (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Estonia (Vilbaste, 1987) ||| Finland (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France (no references) ||| Germany (no references) ||| Italy (Ballini et al., 2017) ||| Latvia (Cera, 2018) ||| Montenegro (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| North Macedonia (Blagoev, 2002) ||| Norway (Farlund, 2019) ||| Poland (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Russia, Central (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern (no references) ||| Russia, Northern (no references) ||| Russia, Western (no references) ||| Slovakia (no references) ||| Sweden (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland (Loria, 2023) ||| Turkey (Asia) (Danışman et al., 2024a) ||| Ukraine (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||

References

Almquist S (2006) Swedish Araneae, part 1 – families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 62(2005): 1-284

Azheganova N S (1968) Kratkii opredelitel' paukov (Aranei) lesnoi i lesostepnoi zony SSSR. Akademia Nauk SSSR, 149pp.

Ballini S, Stauder F, Steinberger K-H (2017) Webspinnen und Weberknechte (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones). In: Schatz H & Wilhalm T (Eds): Tag der Artenvielfalt 2016 in Matsch (Gemeinde Mals, Südtirol, Italien). Gredleriana 17: 278-280

Blagoev G (2002) Check list of Macedonian spiders (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 54: 9-34

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)

Blick T (2018) A small collection of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the River Vjosa, Albania – with an updated spider checklist of Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 213-232

Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info

Farlund M (2019) Norwegian Spiders - Norske edderkopper. Siste oppdatering for funn av nye arter 10. oktober, 2019. Online at http://crocea.wordpress.com/norsk-artsliste/

Fjellberg A (unpubl.)

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311

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

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

Loria P (2023) Cinq premières et une deuxième mentions d’araignées pour la Suisse (Araneae). Entomo Helvetica 16: 123-136

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna].

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App

Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.

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

Sacher P (1984) Bemerkungen zum Material der Gattung Araniella Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum Wien (Arachnida, Araneidae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie B 86: 243-249

Sacher P (1990) Untersuchungen über Zahl, Anordnung und taxonomischen Wert der dorso-lateralen Abdominalpunkte in der Gattung Araniella (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Fennica 190: 345-349

Uyar Z, Bosmans R, Uğurtaş, I H (2014) New faunistic data for the family Araneidae (Araneae) in West Anatolia (Turkey). Entomological News 124: 120-130

Vidal E (2014) Découverte en France d’Araniella proxima (Kulczyński, 1885) (Araneae, Araneidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 1: 13-14

Vilbaste A (1987) Eesti Ämblikud (Aranei). Annoteeritud nimestik. Estonian spiders (Aranei). An annotated check list. Valgus, Tallinn. 113 pp. & 512 maps on 67 unpag. pages

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2

Zamani A, Marusik Y M, Šestáková A (2020a) On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia. ZooKeys 906: 13-40

Updates

16-11-2024	Distribution update	Detail
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