Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Trichopterna  Kulczyński, 1894   4 species

Trichopterna cucurbitina  (Simon, 1882)

Description
Male

Prosoma orange-brown, margins suffused with grey. Prosoma length: 0.64 mm, prosoma width: 0.50 mm. Legs orange-brown, patellae yellowish brown. Opisthosoma grey.

Body length male: 1.7-2.2 mm
Female

Proosma length: 0.64-0.72 mm, Prosoma width: 0.52-0.62 mm. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 1.8-2.7 mm
Additional information

Always close to river banks.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Portugal, Spain, France
Phenology
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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.

France   (no references) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Febrer J B (2018) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). 2: “adenda et corrigenda”. Descripción de tres especies nuevas. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 33: 39-51 pdf

Bosmans R, Cardoso P, Crespo L C (2010) A review of the linyphiid spiders of Portugal, with the description of six new species (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 2473: 1-67 pdf

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

Simon E (1926) Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 2e partie. Roret, Paris, 309-532 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
16-07-2020 Distribution update Detail
09-01-2019 Distribution update Detail
17-12-2013 Datasheet update Detail
17-12-2013 Image insert