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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Mermessus  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899   4 species

Mermessus fradeorum  (Berland, 1932)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010320

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Description
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2025): North America. Introduced to Galapagos, Uruguay, Azores, Cyprus, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, China, New Zealand
Figures
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male Pedipalp, mesal view
(Millidge 1987)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Tanasevitch 2010a)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Cajade et al. 2024)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Baert et al. 2023)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Baert et al. 2023)

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male Embolic division
(Millidge 1987)

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male Embolic division
(Millidge 1987)

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male Embolic division
(Tanasevitch 2010a)

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male Embolic division
(Tanasevitch 2010a)

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male Suprategular apophysis
(Tanasevitch 2010a)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Millidge 1987)

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male Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Millidge 1987)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Tanasevitch 2010a)

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male Pedicel, retrolateral view
(Cajade et al. 2024)

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male Chelicerae, anterior view
(Millidge 1987)

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male Chelicerae and eyes, frontal view
(Tanasevitch 2010a)

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female Epigyne, dorsal view
(Millidge 1987)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Millidge 1987)

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female Epigyne, dorsal view
(Tanasevitch 2010a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Tanasevitch 2010a)

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female Epigyne
(Cajade et al. 2024)

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female Epigyne
(Baert et al. 2023)

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.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) |||
References

Baert L, Maelfait J-P, Desender K, Hendrickx F, Dekoninck W, Berthet M, Bouckaert K, Caudron J, Leclercq M (2023) Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Cajade M, Rodrigues E, Hagopián D, Laborda Á, Brescovit A D, Simó M (2024) On the first South American records of widespread linyphiid spiders (Araneae). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Ciências Naturais 19(e2024-0999): 1-10 pdf

Millidge A F (1987) The Erigonine spiders of North America. Part 8. The Genus Eperigone Crosby and Bishop (Araneae, Linyphiidae). American Museum Novitates 2885: 1-75 pdf

Tanasevitch A V (2010a) Order Araneae, family Linyphiidae. In: Harten A van (ed.) Arthropod Fauna of the UAE 3: 15-26. 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

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