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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Kaestneria  Wiehle, 1956   3 species

Kaestneria torrentum  (Kulczyński, 1882)

Description

Embolus short. Epigyne with a transverse oval groove. Prosoma yellowish-brown, margin darkened. Sternum dirty yellow. Chelicerae with small denticles variable in number on cheliceral furrow margin. Legs yellow-brown. Metatarsus mostly blackish. Opisthosoma dark grey, rarely with lighter chevrons dorsally.

Body length male: 2-2.5 mm
Body length female: 2-2.5 mm
Additional information

Under stones trickled by water, in very damp canyons up to 1200 m, Carpathians

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine
Phenology
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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.

Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Ukraine   (Hirna et al., 2016; Gnelitsa, 2004b) |||
References

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

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

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 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

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 pdf

Updates
16-02-2023 Distribution update Detail
30-07-2020 Distribution update Detail
04-03-2016 Distribution update Detail