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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Agyneta  Hull, 1911   43 species

Agyneta mossica  (Schikora, 1993)

Description

Male palp with almost rectangularly bent or curved lamella characteristica. Tibial apophysis bent. Prosoma grey-yellow, with dark pattern. Sternum and legs slightly darker. Opisthosoma dorsally grey-green, ventrally darker.

Body length male: 1.75-2.02 mm
Body length female: 1.7-2 mm
Additional information

In bogs and damp localities

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Europe (without southern), Russia (Europe to West Siberia)
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
sporadically until October
Figures
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) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Lithuania   (no references) ||| Northern Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Russia, Kaliningrad Region   (no references) ||| Russia, Northern   (Nekhaeva, 2020) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Ukraine   (no references) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Aakra K (2000b) Agyneta mossica (Schikora, 1993) (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in Norway. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 47: 95-99 pdf

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 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

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

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Marusik Y M, Koponen S, Makarova O L (2016a) A survey of spiders (Araneae) collected on the arctic island of Dolgiy (69°12′N), Barents Sea. Arachnology 17: 10-24 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

Morka G H (unpubl.)

Nekhaeva A A (2020) On the spider fauna (Arachnida: Aranei) of the Kanin Peninsula and Kolguev Island, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 29: 387-398 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

Schikora H B (1993) Meioneta mossica sp.n., a new spider close to M. saxatilis (Blackwall) from northern and central Europe. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9: 157-163 pdf

Schikora H-B (2009) Postembryonic development, life cycle, and diagnostic characters of the linyphiid spider Meioneta mossica Schikora, 1993 (Arachnida: Araneae). Contributions to Natural History 12: 1179-1206 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
23-10-2022 Image insert
02-10-2020 Distribution update Detail
13-03-2019 Image insert
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04-03-2016 Distribution update Detail
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