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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Agyneta  Hull, 1911   43 species

Agyneta similis  (Kulczyński, 1926)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011719

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Description
Male

Resembles A. rurestris und A. ressli. Palp: Lamella broad, without a dorsal hump as in rurestris, dorsal rim not rebordered as in ressli.

Body length male: 1.6-2.3 mm
Female

Resembles A. rurestris. Almost indistinguishable.

Body length female: 1.6-2.4 mm
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Iceland, Finland, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Tanasevitch 2000a)

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male Pedipalp
(Agnarsson 1996)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Embolus, ventral view
(Tanasevitch 2000a)

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male Lamella characteristica
(Tanasevitch 2000a)

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male Lamella characteristica
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Palpal tibia
(Tanasevitch 2000a)

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male Tibia and paracymbium
(Tanasevitch 2000a)

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female Pedipalp
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Tanasevitch 2000a)

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female Epigyne
(Agnarsson 1996)

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female Epigyne
(Agnarsson 1996)

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female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Morka unpubl.)

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female Vulva, posterior view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Morka unpubl.)

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female Chelicera, posterior view
(Løvbrekke 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.

Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Iceland   (Agnarsson, 1996) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Russia, Novaya Zemlya   (Tanasevitch, 2017b) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 pdf

Agnarsson I (1996) Íslenskar köngulær Fjölrit Náttúrufræðistofnunar 31: 1-175 pdf

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 pdf

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

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Marusik Y M, Koponen S, Makarova O L (2016a) A survey of spiders (Araneae) collected on the arctic island of Dolgiy (69°12′N), Barents Sea. Arachnology 17: 10-24 pdf

Morka G H (unpubl.)

Tanasevitch A V (2000a) On some Palaearctic species of the spider genus Agyneta Hull 1911, with description of four new species (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 8: 201-213 pdf

Tanasevitch A V (2017b) Spiders (Aranei) of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago and the Vaygach Island, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 26: 145-153 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
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24-05-2020 Distribution insert Detail
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