Linyphiidae, Blackwall, 1859

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Family Linyphiidae

Canariphantes nanus ( Kulczyński, 1898)

Material: 30.5.2014 F 1m; 30.5.2014 M3

1m; 13.6.2014 M3 2mm; 30.5.2014 W1 7 mm;

27.6.2014 W1 2 mm2ff; 18.5.2014 W2 2 mm;

30.5.2014 W2 15 mm1f; 27.6.2014 W2 6 ff;

30.9.2014 W2 1 f; 27.4.2014 W3 1 m; 30.5.2014

W3 6 mm2ff; 27.6.2014 W3 4 ff; 30.9.2014

W3 1 m; 30.5.2014 W4 2 ff; 30.9.2014 W4

1m; 30.10.2014 W4 2 mm; 27.6.2014 W5 3 mm;

30.5.2014 W6 4 mm1f; 27.6.2014 W6 2 mm2ff;

16.7.2014 W6 1 m; 16.8.2014 W6 1 m.

Determination: MILLER 1947, LOKSA

1981, GNELITSA 2009.

Global distribution: Central to Eastern

Europe.

Habitat: The species was found on the ground in a litter, grass and moss in xerothermic, steppe-like habitats but also in deciduous woods ( GNELITSA 2009, KOMNENOV

2014, POLCHANINOVA et al. 2017) and in oak forest close to our sampling area in Hungary

( BALI et al. 2017).

Note: Even if the female was described quite early ( KULCZYŃSKI 1898) from Lower

Austria and the male from the southern Fig. 9. Canariphnates nanus , male left palp, Czech Republic ( MILLER 1947) it seems to be retrolateral. Scale bar: 0.1 mm collected only rarely (but see GNELITSA 2009, and BALI et al. 2017). In our investigation, we found it in high numbers (73 individuals), in all woody habitats, on a meadow and even in a field of Carex spp . Canariphantes nanus was described in detail by GNELITSA (2009) and may be easily identified by the typical lamella characteristica and paracymbium of the males (Fig. 9). This species appears only in the Red List of the Czech Republic in the category critically endangered.