Theonoe minutissima (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879)
Description
Male
Palp with very broad and long tibia, that covers one half of bulbus. Palp: cymbium with a long distal process. Prosoma brown, with fine, dark margin. Prosoma 0.4 mm long. Sternum brown, rounded posteriorly, with fine, dark margin. Chelicerae brown. Legs brown. Opisthosoma spheroidal, blackish. Similar to female, but dorsal impressed dots on opisthosoma larger and more visible.
Body length male: 1.0-1.2 mmFemale
Epigyne marked by 2 small depressions, hardly visible. Palp: claw on tarsus not pectinate. Prosoma 0.4 mm long. Eyes: AME ringed with black, slightly smaller than the rest, lateral eyes contiguous, PME about 2 diameters apart, median ocular quadrangle much wider behind than in front.
Body length female: 1.0-1.3 mmAdditional information
In very wet moss of bogs, also in block fields, but rarely found because of their small size.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Thaler & Steinberger 1988)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1995)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler & Steinberger 1988)
Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Sternum
(Breuss 2001)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1937)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva
(Thaler & Knoflach 2000)
Vulva
(Wiehle 1937)
Vulva
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva
(Fjellberg unpubl.)
Sternum
(Thaler & Knoflach 2000)
Eyes, dorsal view
(Wiehle 1937)
Eyes, frontal view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
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.
References
Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 
Agnarsson I (1996) Íslenskar köngulær Fjölrit Náttúrufræðistofnunar 31: 1-175
Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Breuss W (2001) Bemerkenswerte Spinnen aus Vorarlberg (Österreich) - I (Arachnida: Araneae: Lycosidae, Theridiidae, Mysmenidae, Gnaphosidae, Salticidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 88: 183-193
Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152
Fjellberg A (unpubl.)
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
Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001]
Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212
Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp.
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
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
Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.
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
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
Thaler K, Knoflach B (2000) Das Weibchen von Theonoe sola Thaler & Steinberger, 1988 (Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 87: 159-164
Thaler K, Steinberger K-H (1988) Zwei neue Zwerg-Kugelspinnen aus Österreich (Arachnida: Aranei, Theridiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 95: 997-1004
Wiehle H (1937) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VIII. 26: Familie Theridiidae oder Haubennetzspinnen (Kugelspinnen). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 119-222
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
Updates
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