Robertus scoticus Jackson, 1914
Description
Epigyne with small groove, directly at strongly sclerotised part of epigastric furrow. Entrance ducts longer than diameter of receptacula seminis. Prosoma dark yellow-brown. Sternum yellow-brown. Chelicerae yellow-brown. Legs yellow-brown. Tarsus darker than legs. Opisthosoma light grey, sometimes very bright yellowish orange to almost white.
Body length male: 1.7-2.0 mmBody length female: 1.9-2.2 mm
Additional information
In very damp localities, in woodland and bogs, often under the ground in crevices and mammal burrows
Frequency: Widely distributed
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Miller 1967)
Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1937)
Pedipalp
(Bauchhenss & Uhlenhaut 1993)
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1995)
Pedipalp
(Locket et al. 1974)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Cymbium, dorsal view
(Locket et al. 1974)
Palpal claw
(Wunderlich 1976)
Epigyne
(Miller 1967)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1937)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1937)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Fjellberg unpubl.)
Vulva
(Bauchhenss & Uhlenhaut 1993)
Vulva
(Miller 1967)
Vulva
(Dresco 1959a)
Vulva
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva
(Fjellberg unpubl.)
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
Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 
Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244
Bauchhenss E, Uhlenhaut H (1993) Robertus kuehnae n.sp., eine neue Kleintheridiide aus Mitteleuropa (Arachnida, Araneae, Theridiidae). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 37: 25-28
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)
Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152
Dresco E (1959a) Sur quelques espèces du genre Robertus (Araneae, Theridiidae). Description de R. alpinus et R. cardesensis spp. nov. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 31: 242-247
Fjellberg A (unpubl.)
Hirna A, Gnelitsa V, Zhukovets E (2016) A checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of the Chornohora Mountain massif (Ukrainian Carpathians). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 16-38
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
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001]
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.
Locket G H, Millidge A F, Merrett P (1974) British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp.
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Miller F (1967) Studien über die Kopulationsorgane der Spinnengattung Zelotes, Micaria, Robertus und Dipoena nebst Beschreibung einiger neuen oder unvollkommen bekannten Spinnenarten. Přírodovědné práce ústavů Československé Akademie Věd v Brně (N.S.) 1: 251-298
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
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
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 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
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
Wiehle H (1937) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VIII. 26: Familie Theridiidae oder Haubennetzspinnen (Kugelspinnen). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 119-222
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
Wunderlich J (1976) Zur Kenntnis der mitteleuropäischen Arten der Gattung Enoplognatha Pavesi und Robertus O. Pick. Cambridge Senckenbergiana Biologica 57: 97-112
Updates
| 06-01-2020 | Image insert | |
| 10-09-2018 | Image insert | |
| 04-03-2016 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 18-12-2014 | Image insert |