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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Porrhomma  Simon, 1884   16 species

Porrhomma microcavense  Wunderlich, 1990

Description

Prosoma width female: 0.72 mm, prosoma width male: 0.8 mm. Femur I male: 0.95 mm long.

Body length male: 2.1 mm
Body length female: 2.0 - 2.2 mm
Additional information

In damp, open locations next to wood (forest edges, meadows), perhaps microcavernicolous

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Russia (Europe)
Phenology
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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.

Austria   (Thaler et al., 2003) ||| Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Czechia   (Růžička, 2018; Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Germany   (Růžička, 2018) ||| Luxembourg   (Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| Netherlands   (van Helsdingen & IJland, 2011) ||| Poland   (Růžička, 2018) ||| Russia, Central   (Esyunin et al., 2021) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Růžička, 2018) ||| Slovakia   (Růžička, 2018) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69 pdf

Esyunin S L, Agafonova O V, Ruchin A B (2021) [Spider fauna (Aranei) of the Mordovian Reserve]. Proceedings of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve 27: 53-133 pdf

Helsdingen P J van, IJland S (2011) Porrhomma microcavense Wunderlich, 1990 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) new for the Netherlands. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 31: 23-26 pdf

Kreuels M, Staudt A, Christian S (2019) Die Spinnenfauna von Luxemburg – eine Zusammenstellung der Nachweise aus den Jahren 1906-2018 (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 121: 203-230 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 pdf

Růžička V (2018) A review of the spider genus Porrhomma (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 4481: 1-75 pdf

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

Thaler K, Buchar J, Kubcová L (2003) Neue Funde von zwei Porrhomma-Arten in Zentraleuropa (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 46: 173-175 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 (1990) Porrhomma microcavense n. sp. aus Deutschland (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 100: 164-168 pdf

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