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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Robertus  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879   18 species

Robertus insignis  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1908

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007973

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Description
Male

Lateral bulbus apophysis broad and ending blunt. Prosoma brown, eye region almost black. Sternum brown. Chelicerae and legs dark brown. Opisthosoma grey, sometimes almost black

Body length male: 2.5 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 1.3-1.5 mm.

Body length female: 2.5 mm
Additional information

In very dump meadows.

Frequency: Rarely found

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Europe
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 1976)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wiehle 1960b)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Roberts 1985a)

species

male Embolus and conductor
(Wiehle 1960b)

species

female Palpal claw
(Wunderlich 1976)

species

female Epigyne
(Merrett & Snazell 1975)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1976)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Roberts 1985a)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 1976)

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.

Austria   (no references) ||| Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Estonia   (no references) ||| France   (no references) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Latvia   (Cera, 2018) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Russia, Western   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152 pdf

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311 pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

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

Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522 pdf

Merrett P, Snazell R G (1975) New and rare British spiders. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 3: 106-112 pdf

Milasowszky N, Bauchhenss E, Freudenschuss M, Hepner M, Komposch C, Zulka K P (2015) Erstnachweise von Spinnen in Österreich (Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Linyphiidae, Lycosidae, Philodromidae, Theridiidae, Titanoecidae, Salticidae). Biodiversität und Naturschutz in Ostösterreich ‐ BCBEA 1/2: 296-303 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Roberts M J (1985a) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books, Colchester, England, 229 pp. pdf

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html pdf

Wiehle H (1960b) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der deutschen Spinnenfauna. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 88: 195-254 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

Wunderlich J (1976) Zur Kenntnis der mitteleuropäischen Arten der Gattung Enoplognatha Pavesi und Robertus O. Pick. Cambridge Senckenbergiana Biologica 57: 97-112 pdf

Updates
19-01-2016 Distribution update Detail
24-06-2014 Image insert