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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Wiehlea  Braun, 1959   1 species

Wiehlea calcarifera  (Simon, 1884)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013412

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Description

Tibial apophysis bent hook-like in ventral direction. Prosoma brownish yellow. Legs brownish yellow, femur and patella brighter. Opisthosoma pale yellowish.

Body length male: 1.0-1.9 mm
Body length female: 1.0-1.9 mm
Additional information

Biology mostly unknown, partly living deeply under the ground

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, France, Britain, Belgium, Germany
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, expanded, mesal view
(Merrett 1963)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Merrett 1963)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Barrientos et al. 2014a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Locket et al. 1974)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Roberts 1987)

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male Embolic division, lateral view
(Merrett 1963)

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male Median apophysis, mesal view
(Merrett 1963)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Locket et al. 1974)

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male Palpal tibia, lateral view
(Locket et al. 1974)

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male Prosoma, frontal view
(Locket et al. 1974)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

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female Epigyne
(Locket et al. 1974)

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female Vulva
(Braun 1959)

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female Prosoma, dorsal view
(Braun 1959)

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female Prosoma, frontal view
(Braun 1959)

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female Prosoma, lateral view
(Braun 1959)

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female Chelicerae, frontal view
(Braun 1959)

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female Tibia I, retrolateral view
(Braun 1959)

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female Tarsus I, retrolateral view
(Braun 1959)

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.

Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| France   (no references) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Uribarri I, García-Sarrión R (2014a) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de un hayedo del Montseny (Cataluña, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 24: 3-14 pdf

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

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Braun R (1959) Eine neue deutsche Micryphantide, Wiehlea huetheri (Arach., Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 40: 99-103 pdf

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

Locket G H, Millidge A F, Merrett P (1974) British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp. 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

Merrett P (1963) On a soil-dwelling linyphiid spider, Wiehlea calcarifera (Simon). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (13) 5: 625-630 pdf

Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp. 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
26-02-2021 Image insert
04-12-2014 Distribution update Detail