Common wallpaper spider
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The common wallpapering spider ( Atypus affinis ) is a species of spider from the family of wallpapering spiders . It is widespread from North Africa to Denmark. It was named Spider of the Year 2013 by the Arachnological Society (AraGes) .
Mark
Atypus affinis is solid black or brown. The males are 7 to 9 mm long, while females can grow to 10 to 15 mm. It differs from the other two native atypical species by its clearly three-part posterior spinneret.
distribution
The distribution area includes Europe from Portugal to Ukraine and from Sweden to Greece and North Africa and the Caucasus . In Great Britain it is the only species in the genus Atypus .
Way of life
Their habitat is mostly rocky slopes in dry pine forests or heathland. The catch hose is approx. 13 to 17 cm long, the underground living hose 20 to 45 cm.
The young are sexually mature at around four years of age. The mating season is in autumn. The males go in search of a female webbed and then live there together until the male dies shortly after mating. The young hatch the following summer. Females live up to eight years.
Danger
Atypus affinis was categorized in the Red Lists of the following countries (selection):
- Germany: 3 (endangered)
- Bavaria:
- Alpine foothills / Alps: 2 (endangered)
- Layer level country: 3 (endangered)
- East Bavarian basement: 2 (endangered)
- Tertiary hill country / gravel slabs: 2 (endangered)
- Baden-Württemberg: 3 (endangered)
- North Rhine-Westphalia: 2 (endangered)
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: 4 (potentially endangered)
- Lower Saxony: 3 (endangered)
- Thuringia: 2 (endangered)
- Bavaria:
Atypus affinis is thus the least endangered atypus species in Germany .
Frontal view
bottom
Posterior spinnerets at an angle from above
Eye mound from above (front corresponds to above)
End of the palpus of the male from the inside
Chelicerae from below
Web links
Atypus affinis in the World Spider Catalog
- Report on Atypus affinis (English)
- Atypus affinis in the spider forum Wiki
- Web page with photographs (English)
- Find data Germany
- Marcus Schmitt: Where the wild things live: Tarantula relationship (Atypus affinis, Araneae) in Ruthertal between Werden and Kettwig (PDF; 680 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Purse-web spider (Atypus affinis) ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Wildscreen Arkive, accessed January 5, 2017.
- ↑ European Spider of the Year 2013 Arages.de, accessed on January 5, 2017.
- ↑ Europe's spider of the year 2013: The common wallpaper spider - Atypus affinis info poster (PDF; 8 MB), accessed on January 5, 2017.
- ↑ Information according to www.araneae.unibe.ch
- ↑ Blick, T. and M. Scheidler: Red List of Endangered Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) Bavaria . Bavarian State Office for Environmental Protection, 2003 ( PDF ).
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