Janetschekia monodon (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)
Description
Prosoma shiny brown-black with blackish pattern. Sternum and chelicerae brownish yellow, sometimes darkened. Legs brownish yellow, sometimes darkened. Opisthosoma blackish, lung-covers yellowish.
Body length male: 1.5 mmBody length female: 1.8 mm
Additional information
in glacier forefields of the Alps in rocky debris areas with poor vegetation, gravely river banks, also directly on border of glacier, 250-3400m; also on gravel roofs (Komposch 2004).
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Thaler 1969)
Pedipalp
(Thaler 1969)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Komnenov 2018)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Komnenov 2018)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Komnenov 2018)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Komnenov 2018)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Komnenov 2018)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Komnenov 2018)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Michaud 2021)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Michaud 2021)
Tibial apophysis
(Thaler 1969)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Thaler 1969)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Thaler 1969)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Michaud 2021)
Habitus, lateral view
(Komnenov 2018)
Habitus, lateral view
(Komnenov 2018)
Epigyne
(Michaud 2021)
Vulva
(Thaler 1969)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Michaud 2021)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Thaler 1969)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Thaler 1969)
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
Komnenov M (2018) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the floodplains of the Vjosa river, south Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 197-212 
Komposch C (2004) Die Spinnenfauna (Araneae). Naturdach Kraftwerk Friesach. Sukzessionsstudie. Forschung im Verbund 87: 24-43
Michaud A (2021) Découverte en France de Janetschekia monodon (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 8: 2-5
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
Thaler K (1969) Über einige wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus Tirol (Arachn., Araneae, Erigonidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 57: 195-219
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