Tallusia vindobonensis ( Kulczyński, 1898 )

Grbić, Gordana, Hänggi, Ambros & Krnjajić, Slobodan, 2021, Spiders (Araneae) Of Subotica Sandland (Serbia): Additional Arguments In Environmental Protection, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 67 (1), pp. 15-61 : 34

Tallusia vindobonensis ( Kulczyński, 1898)

Material: 30.10.2014 M2 1f; 30.10.2014 M3 1m 1f.

Determination: POLENEC & THALER 1980, THALER 1997, GAJDOŠ et al. 2019.

Global distribution: Europe.

Habitat: Various types of habitats, from lowland to upland ( GAJDOŠ et al. 2019).

Note: Very rarely found, reproduction period in winter ( NENTWIG et al. 2020). GAJDOŠ et al. (2019) summarise the known ecological data: males adult in winter, females through all the year; different types of meadows (nutrient-poor, karst meadows and but also salt marshes. In our material Tallusia vindobonensis was found in the wet meadows (M2, M3). For the determination and separation from Tallusia pindos Thaler, 1997 (see POLENEC & THALER 1980 and THALER 1997). Some photos of the male palp and the female epigyne/ vulva underline the identification ( Fig. 12 ). This species is not treated in any of the consulted Red List of species.

Figures

Fig. 12. Tallusia vindobonensis, A–B = male left palp, A = retrolateral, B = detail of the lamella characteristica, C = female epigyne, D = vulva dorsal. Scale bars: 0.5 mm for A, 0.1 mm for B, 0.2 mm for C–D