Carniella brignolii Thaler & Steinberger, 1988
Description
Male
Prosoma amber, 0.48 mm long. Clypeus with a haired tubercle. Opisthosoma blackish. Colulus with 2 bristles.
Body length male: 1.0 mmFemale
Epigyne rounded, wider than long, the edge hardly sclerotized. Prosoma 0.35 mm long. Prosoma and sternum light yellow. Eyes: 6, in 2 groups on each side of prosoma. Eyes of Romanian cave specimens are completely reduced. Chelicerae light yellow, promargin with 3 teeth. Legs: tarsal claws with teeth. Opisthosoma white, with long blackish hairs.
Body length female: 0.87 mmAdditional information
Only found in a xerothermic debris block field (Austria), in riparian zone of an alpine stream (South Germany), in a quarry (Belgium), in gravel and in vineyard soil (Switzerland) and a cave in Romania as yet.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Thaler & Steinberger 1988)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler & Steinberger 1988)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler & Steinberger 1988)
Pedipalp
(Thaler & Steinberger 1988)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Thaler-Knoflach et al. 2014)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler-Knoflach et al. 2014)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Thaler-Knoflach et al. 2014)
Tip of cymbium, dorsal view
(Thaler-Knoflach et al. 2014)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Thaler-Knoflach et al. 2014)
Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Thaler-Knoflach et al. 2014)
Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Thaler-Knoflach et al. 2014)
Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Thaler-Knoflach et al. 2014)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Thaler-Knoflach et al. 2014)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Thaler-Knoflach et al. 2014)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Thaler-Knoflach et al. 2014)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Thaler-Knoflach et al. 2014)
Sternum
(Thaler-Knoflach et al. 2014)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Thaler & Steinberger 1988)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Thaler & Steinberger 1988)
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
Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69 
Hänggi A, Stäubli A (2012) Nachträge zum „Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen“: 4. Neunachweise von 2002 bis 2011. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 59-76
Krásenský P (2021) Snovačka Carniella brignolii (Araneae: Theridiidae), nový druh pavouka pro faunu České republiky [Tangle-web spider Carniella brignolii (Araneae: Theridiidae), new spider species for the fauna of the Czech Republic]. Pavouk 51: 3-4
Nae A (2012) Carniella mihaili (Georgescu, 1994) – new combination of genus and description of the male (Araneae, Theridiidae). Travaux de l’Institut de Spéologie “Émile Racovitza” 51: 67-72
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
Thaler K, Steinberger K-H (1988) Zwei neue Zwerg-Kugelspinnen aus Österreich (Arachnida: Aranei, Theridiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 95: 997-1004
Thaler-Knoflach B, Hänggi A, Kielhorn K-H, Broen B von (2014) Revisiting the taxonomy of the rare and tiny comb-footed spider Carniella brignolii (Araneae, Theridiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 47: 7-13
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