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Dictynidae  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 / Arctella  Holm, 1945   1 species

Arctella lapponica  Holm, 1945

Description

Prosoma red-brown to brown, with dark radial stripes and margin. Sternum brown. Chelicerae dark brown. Legs light brown. Opisthosoma black-grey, velvety-haired, dark V-shaped spot ranging to the middle of opisthosoma.

Body length male: 3,5 mm
Body length female: 3,5 mm
Additional information

in ground litter and dense plant layer

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Scandinavia, Russia (Europe to Far East), Mongolia, USA (Alaska), Canada
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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.

Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Norway   (Løvbrekke, unpubl.) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
References

Holm Å (1945) Zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna des Torneträskgebietes. Arkiv för Zoologi 36(A15): 1-80 pdf

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

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

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Marusik Y M, Omelko M M, Ponomarev A V (2017a) A survey of the Holarctic genus Arctella Holm, 1945 (Araneae: Dictynidae, Tricholathysinae), with the description of Tricholathys ovtchinnikovi sp. n. Oriental Insects 51: 246-261 pdf

Palmgren P (1977) Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens VIII. Argyronetidae, Agelenidae, Hahniidae, Dictynidae, Amaurobiidae, Titanoecidae, Segestriidae, Pholcidae und Sicariidae. Fauna Fennica 30: 1-50 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
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