Troxochrus scabriculus (Westring, 1851)
Description
Conductor hook-shaped. Epigyne with square median plate. Prosoma brown to dark brown, male: with pronounced elevated head region and distinct lateral depressions, forma cirrifrons with long bristles above lateral eyes, forma scabriculus without such bristles. Legs yellow-orange. Opisthosoma grey-black with red-brown sigilla.
Body length male: 1.7-2 mmBody length female: 1.7-2 mm
Additional information
in open terrain, in dry and moderately humid places
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1960a)
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1987)
Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Milasowszky & Hepner 2018)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Milasowszky & Hepner 2018)
Embolic division, retrolateral view
(Thaler 1986a)
Palpal tibia
(Thaler 1986a)
Tibial apophysis
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Roberts 1987)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Roberts 1987)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Roberts 1987)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Roberts 1987)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Müller 1984)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Müller 1984)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Thaler 1986a)
Prosoma, frontal view
(Milasowszky & Hepner 2018)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Milasowszky & Hepner 2018)
Prosoma, frontal view
(Milasowszky & Hepner 2018)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Milasowszky & Hepner 2018)
Ocular area, dorsal view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1960a)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, ventral view
(O. Pickard-Cambridge 1911b)
Epigyne
(Milasowszky & Hepner 2018)
Epigyne
(Morka unpubl.)
Vulva
(Wiehle 1960a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva
(Milasowszky & Hepner 2018)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Thaler 1986a)
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.
References
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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)
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Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212
Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp.
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Milasowszky N, Hepner M (2018) A case of dimorphic males in Troxochrus scabriculus (Araneae: Linyphiidae), with notes on synonymy. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 56: 48-54
Morka G H (unpubl.)
Müller H-G (1984) Zur Variabilität der Kopfformen bei Zwergspinnenmännchen. Über Diplocephalus latifrons "fallaciosus" (Bertkau 1883) und Troxochrus scabriculus "cirrifrons" (Cambridge 1871) (Arachnida: Araneida: Linyphiidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 94: 347-350
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Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
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Pickard-Cambridge O (1911b) On British Arachnida noted and observed in 1909. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club 31: 47-70
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