araneae - Bathyphantes approximatus

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Bathyphantes approximatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009552

Description

Embolus forming a very large loop, longitudinal to cymbium. Epigyne with large scapus, ± as long as wide. Prosoma brown, with darkened margin. Sternum blackish. Chelicerae light brown, with 3 denticles on anterior and 4 denticles on posterior cheliceral furrow margin. Opisthosoma black, mostly with bright pattern dorsally consisting of transverse bands or chevrons.

Body length male: 2-3 mm
Body length female: 2-3.5 mm

Additional information

in very damp and shadowed localities

Character states from linyphiid key

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2024): Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Middle Siberia)

Phenology



Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Maximum: May to July

Figures

Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1956)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1998)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1987)

Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1956)

Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Embolus
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)

Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Vulva, ventral view
(Wiehle 1956)

Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Habitus
(Wiehle 1956)

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 (no references) ||| Belarus (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Belgium (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Czechia (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Denmark (no references) ||| Estonia (no references) ||| Finland (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France (no references) ||| Georgia (Otto, 2022) ||| Germany (no references) ||| Hungary (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Ireland (Lavery, 2019) ||| Italy (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Kosovo Removed (Geci & Naumova, 2021b) ||| Latvia (Cera, 2018) ||| Lithuania (no references) ||| Luxembourg (Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| Netherlands (no references) ||| Northern Ireland (Lavery, 2019) ||| Norway (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Poland (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania (no references) ||| Russia, Central (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Eastern (no references) ||| Russia, Northern (no references) ||| Russia, Southern (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Western (no references) ||| Serbia (Geci & Naumova, 2021b) ||| Slovakia (no references) ||| Sweden (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland (no references) ||| Ukraine (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) ||| United Kingdom (Lavery, 2019) |||

References

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

Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152

Geci D, Naumova M (2021b) A preliminary checklist of the spiders of Kosovo (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologia Balkanica, Special Edition 4: 11-28

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311

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

Kreuels M, Staudt A, Christian S (2019) Die Spinnenfauna von Luxemburg – eine Zusammenstellung der Nachweise aus den Jahren 1906-2018 (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 121: 203-230

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

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp.

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.

Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp.

Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.

Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.

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

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

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184

Wiehle H (1956) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, X. 28: Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1-337

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

Updates

19-06-2021	Distribution update	Detail
12-05-2020	Distribution insert	Detail