Labulla thoracica (Wider, 1834)
Description
Embolus very long, forming a large, ± circular loop with conductor. Epigyne with anteriorly stronger sclerotised copulatory openings. Prosoma yellowish-grey, with darkening on margin and around fovea. Head region stronger elevated in males than in females. Sternum black, slightly lighter in the middle. Chelicerae brown, robust. Legs yellow to light brown, very long, distinctly annulated. Opisthosoma highly elevated, conspicuously patterned, grey-yellow with white spots and dark dorsal pattern.
Body length male: 5.0-5.5 mmBody length female: 5.0-7.5 mm
Additional information
in dense woodland, mainly in low mountain ranges, also in hedges and wood piles
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wiehle 1956)
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1998)
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1987)
Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1956)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Méndez et al. 2024)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Méndez et al. 2024)
Pedicel, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Méndez et al. 2024)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1956)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Fjellberg unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Morka unpubl.)
Vulva
(Wiehle 1956)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Leg I, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Femur I, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus
(Wiehle 1956)
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
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
Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152
Fjellberg A (unpubl.)
Hormiga G, Scharff N (2005) Monophyly and phylogenetic placement of the spider genus Labulla Simon, 1884 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) and description of the new genus Pecado. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 359-404
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
Kreuels M, Staudt A, Christian S (2019) Die Spinnenfauna von Luxemburg – eine Zusammenstellung der Nachweise aus den Jahren 1906-2018 (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 121: 203-230
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.
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
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
Martínez Sabarís E (2018) Catálogo provisional das arañas (orde Araneae): de Galicia. A Mobella 22: 31-81
Méndez Ó, Marquerie M, Domènech M (2024) Nuevos registros aracnológicos (Araneae) en Cataluña aportan nuevas citas a nivel regional, nacional y peninsular. Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica 22: 79-94
Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262
Morka G H (unpubl.)
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
Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp.
Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.
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
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
Staudt A, Weber D, Nährig D (2013) Webspinnen (Arachnida, Araneae) aus Höhlen des Großherzogtums Luxemburg. Ferrantia 69: 115-157
Wiehle H (1956) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, X. 28: Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1-337
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
Zhukovets E M (2017) [Spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha]. Riftur Print, Minsk, 272 pp. [N.B.: presumably publ. in Jan. 2019]
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