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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Centromerus  Dahl, 1886   71 species

Centromerus subcaecus  Kulczyński, 1914

Description
Male

Prosoma and legs uniformly yellowish. Opisthosoma and sternum blackish. Eyes surrounded by black. Palp: Patella and tibia without peculiarities, cymbium with proximal hump, its base with distinct margins. Paracymbium with longitudinal groove, terminal branch uniformly rounded. Posterior margin of radix truncated, lamelliform und with warts. Prosoma length: 0.5-0.7 mm, prosoma width: 0.4-0.5 mm.

Body length male: 1.4-1.6 mm
Female

As in male. Epigyne: Weakly sclerotized, flat. Epigyneal groove 3x wider than long, scape with short base, base with few transversal grooves, distal part saddle-like, deeply hollowed. Prosoma length: 0.5-0.7 mm, prosoma width: 0.4-0.5 mm.

Body length female: 1.4-1.6 mm
Additional information

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: records from Germany, Italy, Austria and Serbia are misidentified (Komnenov 2020a); Germany: "sp. prope"
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro
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.

Austria  Removed (Komnenov, 2020a) ||| Bosnia and Herzegovina   (Komnenov, 2010) ||| Croatia   (Komnenov, 2020a) ||| Germany  Removed (Blick et al., 2016; Komnenov, 2020a) ||| Italy  Removed (Pantini & Isaia, 2019; Komnenov, 2020a; Steinberger, 2005; Steinberger, 2007) ||| Montenegro   (Komnenov, 2020a) ||| Serbia  Removed (Komnenov, 2020a) |||
References

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Komnenov M (2010) Checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uzizaž i Biospeld 5(2009): 52-69 pdf

Komnenov M (2020a) Subterranean spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Montenegro. The Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, Proceedings of the Section of Natural Sciences 23: 119-169 pdf

Kratochvíl J, Miller F (1938) Sur le problème des araignées cavernicoles du genre Centromerus de la Péninsule balkanique. Izvestiya na Tsarskite Prirodonauchni Instituti v Sofia 11: 107-113 pdf

Kulczyński W (1914) Aranearum species novae minusve cognitae, in montibus Kras dictis a Dre C. Absolon aliisque collectae. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1914: 353-387 pdf

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 pdf

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 pdf

Steinberger K-H (2005) Die Spinnen (Araneae) und Weberknechte (Opiliones) der Etsch-Auen in Südtirol (Italien). Gredleriana 4: 55-92 pdf

Steinberger K-H (2007) Spinnen und Weberknechte (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones) Südtiroler Flusslandschaften - Auwaldfragmente an Eisack und Rienz (Südtirol, Italien). Gredleriana   7: 171-194 pdf

Thaler K, Höfer H (1988) Eine weitere Art der Gattung Centromerus Dahl 1886 in Mitteleuropa: C. sp. prope subcaecus Kulczynski 1914 (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 68: 389-396 pdf

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 pdf

Updates
31-10-2024 Image insert
08-04-2021 Distribution update Detail
03-11-2020 Distribution update Detail
08-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail
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