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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Wubanoides  Eskov, 1986   2 species

Wubanoides uralensis lithodytes  Schikora, 2004

Description
Male

Prosoma dorsally whitish yellow to orange yellow. Legs orange yellow. Opisthosoma ventrally blackish, dorsally whitish or yellowish brown, distal half sometimes with 4-5 grey horizontal stripes. Region above spinnerets creme-coloured. Palp: basal embolic part a semi-circular plate, the protruding embolic spur slim and long.

Body length male: 2.0-2.9 mm
Female

Colour as in male but darker. Epigyne subconical, roughly heart shaped, centre part of anterior margin with flat convex projection, lateral margins almost straight or very slightly concave.

Body length female: 2.0-2.9 mm
Additional information

Relatively long-legged, extremely agile species. In Germany only known from the crevice-system of blocky debris fields, where they build 8-10 cm wide, simple horizontal sheet webs and probably mainly catch Collembola.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Germany, Czechia
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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.

Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Germany   (no references) |||
References

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 pdf

Schikora H-B (2004) Wubanoides uralensis (Pakhorukov 1981) – geographic variation, mating behaviour, postembryonic development and description of a new subspecies (Araneae, Linyphiidae). In Thaler, K. (ed.), Diversität und Biologie von Webspinnen, Skorpionen under anderen Spinnentieren. Denisia 12: 327-341 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
15-07-2014 Image insert