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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Walckenaeria  Blackwall, 1833   63 species

Walckenaeria lepida  (Kulczyński, 1885)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013325

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Description
Male

Prosoma with horn in ocular area. Prosoma length: 0.95-1.0 mm. Legs: TmI: 0.55.

Body length male: 2-2.5 mm
Female

Body colouration bright orange. Prosoma length: 1.0 mm. Legs: femora orange, remaining segments brown, TmI: 0.50. Sternum orange, with dusky margins. Opisthosoma black.

Body length female: 2.6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): North America, Finland, Russia (Europe to Far East)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Pajunen et al. 2009)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Pajunen et al. 2009)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

male Tip of embolus
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 1972a)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Wunderlich 1972a)

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male Eyes, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Pajunen et al. 2009)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva
(Pajunen et al. 2009)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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.

Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) |||
References

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 pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Marusik Y M, Koponen S, Makarova O L (2016a) A survey of spiders (Araneae) collected on the arctic island of Dolgiy (69°12′N), Barents Sea. Arachnology 17: 10-24 pdf

Millidge A F (1983) The erigonine spiders of North America. Part 6. The genus Walckenaeria Blackwall (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Journal of Arachnology 11: 105-200 pdf

Pajunen T, Koponen S, Saaristo M I, Väisänen R A (2009) Walckenaeria furcillata (Menge, 1869) and Walckenaeria lepida (Kulczynski, 1885) in Finland (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Memoranda Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 85: 79-85 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

Wunderlich J (1972a) Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Walckenaeria Blackwall 1833 unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der europäischen Subgenera und Arten (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Zoologische Beiträge (N.F.) 18: 371-427 pdf

Updates
11-05-2016 Distribution update Detail
08-04-2016 Image insert
04-09-2015 Image insert
14-08-2015 Image insert