Incestophantes crucifer
Creators: name: Gnelitsa, Valery
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Incestophantes
Incestophantes crucifer

description: <i>Incestophantes crucifer</i> (Menge, 1866) <i>Bathyphantes c.</i> Menge, 1866: fig. 41. <i>Bolyphantes c.</i>: Wiehle 1956: fig. 268-272; Miller 1971: plate XLIII, figs 7-8; Palmgren 1975: fig. 9.23-24; Pichka 1983: fig. 2. <i>Lepthyphantes c.</i>: Simon 1884: figs 18-19; Thaler et al. 1994: fig. 30-39. <i>Incestophantes c.</i>: Saaristo and Tanasevitch 2000: p. 257. Figs 1, 2d-f, 3e-h <b>Material.</b> Ukraine: Volyn region, <b>Shatsk</b> Distr., Shatsky Nature Park, 51°30’N 23°55’E, <i>Quercus – Pinus</i> forest, male, female, IV-X.1990, K. V. Evtushenko leg. (Evtushenko’s private collection); Chernovtsy region, <b>Vyzhnitsa</b> Distr., Dolishny Shepot environs, 48°01’N 25°16’E, Chiuchelka Mt. slope, <i>Picea</i>, in needle litter and in moss on the ground, 3 females, 2.VII.2001; Sumy region, <b>Konotop</b> Distr., 2 km to the North of Kuzky village, 51°18’N 33°17’E, <i>Pinus</i>, sparse <i>Quercus</i>, <i>Betula</i>, <i>Sorbus</i> with <i>Frangula</i>, <i>Vaccinium myrtillus</i> and <i>Calluna vulgaris</i>, at the base of <i>Pine</i> trunk and in litter, 3 females 2 males, 22.V.2003, <b>Yampol</b> Distr., Prudishche environs, 51°57’N 33°43’E, <i>Pinus</i>, sparse <i>Sorbus</i>, at the base of <i>Pine</i> trunk, 6 females 1 male, 7.V.2000; <b>Seredinobuda</b> Distr., Staraya Guta environs, Desnyansko-Starogutsky Nature Park, 52°19’N 33°46’E, <i>Pinus</i>, sparse <i>Quercus</i>, <i>Sorbus</i> with <i>Frangula</i>, at the base of <i>Pine</i> trunk, female, 22.VI.2000; moss, 6 females, 13.V.2001, 5 females, 15.V.2001; <i>Pinus</i>, <i>Betula</i>, sparse <i>Quercus</i>, <i>Sorbus</i> with <i>Frangula</i> and <i>Vaccinium myrtillus,</i> in litter, female, 16.V.2001; <i>Sphagnum - Eriophorum</i> bog, on the rising ground in the grass near the base of <i>Betula</i> trees, female, 8.V.1990, 2 females, 22.VI.2000, 2 females, 17.IX.2000, 5 females 1 male, 18.IX.2000, all collected by V. Gnelitsa (all preserved in the VGC). <b>Description. Male.</b> Total length 1.69, carapace: 0.94 long, 0.74 wide, yellow with dark border and median longitudinal stripe; sternum: 0.56 long, 0.55 wide, caudally extended between coxae IV, yellow with slightly darker margin; posterior median eyes 0.6 diameter apart. Anterior margin of chelicerae at the base of the fang with five medium sized teeth and a small one remotely positioned, posterior margin with tiny tooth at the base of fang; stridulating files distinct. Abdomen with dorsal pattern of two longitudinal rows of dark patches on a light background. Legs yellow, femur, tibia and metatarsus all with dark ring, tibia darkened distally; spination: FeI – 1p, TiI – 2d:1p:1r, MtI – 1d; TiII – 2d:1r, MtII – 1d; TiIII – 2d and 2 spines (1p, 1r) at the distal end, MtIII – 1d; TiIV – 2d and 2 spines (1p, 1r) at the distal end, MtIV – 1d; position of metatarsal trichobothrium: I – 0.20, II – 0.19, III – 0.18. <b>Palp:</b> see Fig. 2 d-f. <b>Female.</b> General appearance as in the male. Total length 2.23; carapace 0.78 long, 0.62 wide, yellow with dark gray border and median longitudinal stripe; sternum 0.49 long, 0.45 wide, caudally extended between coxae IV, yellow-gray with slightly darker border. Posterior median eyes 0.6 diameter apart. Anterior margin of chelicerae with three (two medium sized, one small) teeth, posterior margin with five tiny teeth close together; stridulating files as in male. Position of metatarsal trichobothrium: I – 0.25, II – 0.23, III – 0.20. <b>Epigyne:</b> see Fig. 3 e-g; vulva: see Fig. 3h. <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Incestophantes crucifer</i> is known from Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and the former Yugoslavia (Van Helsdingen 2007). The spiders usually inhabit dry coniferous forests as well as bogs. Their webs are spanned in a slanting direction from tree trunks towards the litter.
description: Published as part of <i>Gnelitsa, Valery, 2009, A new species of Incestophantes Tanasevitch, 1992 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Ukraine, pp. 309-317 in ZooKeys 16 (16)</i> on pages 315-316, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.16.225, http://zenodo.org/record/576488
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