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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Gonatium  Menge, 1868   13 species

Gonatium orientale  Fage, 1931

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010667

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Description
Male

Resembles G. rubellum and G. geniculosum. Prosoma orange-brown, with darker markings and margins. Raised anteriorly in the male, with short sulci behind the lateral eyes. Opisthosoma grey-pink. Sternum red-brown. Legs orange. Palp: tibial basal lateral apophysis long and curved distally.

Prosoma length: 1.4 mm.

Body length male: 2.9 mm
Female

Resembles G. rubellum and G. geniculosum. Colouration as in males. Epigyne: genital openings near to the spermathecae and anterior septum narrow.

Prosoma length: 1.3-1.6 mm.

Body length female: 3-3.7 mm
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Romania, Bulgaria
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Deltshev 1985a)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Deltshev 1985a)

species

male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Deltshev 1985a)

species

female Vulva
(Deltshev 1985a)

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.

Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2017) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Serbia   (no references) ||| Ukraine   (Gnelitsa, 2004b) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Deltshev C (1985a) A contribution to the study of the family Erigonidae (Araneae) from Pirin Mountain, Bulgaria, with a description of a new species (Metopobactrus orbelicus sp. n.). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 6: 359-366 pdf

Gnelitsa V A (2004b) [Preliminary data on spiders of the family Linyphiidae of the Vyzhnitsky National Nature Park (Carpathians, Ukraine)]. Nature Reserves in Ukraine 10: 86-89 pdf

Hirna A, Gnelitsa V, Zhukovets E (2016) A checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of the Chornohora Mountain massif (Ukrainian Carpathians). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 16-38 pdf

Komnenov M (2017) New data on spider fauna (Araneae) of Shar Mountain, north-western Macedonia. Proceedings of the 5th Congress of the Ecologists of Macedonia, with international participation (Ohrid, 19th-22nd October 2016). Special issues of the Macedonian Ecological Society 13: 44-61 pdf

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 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
16-02-2023 Distribution update Detail
11-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail
04-03-2016 Distribution update Detail