Black-legged Embolic Spider

Agyneta nigripes

General Status Rank: 
Undetermined
ELCODE: 
ILARAH5190
Common Name: 
Black-legged Embolic Spider
Scientific Name: 
Agyneta nigripes
Synonyms: 
Meioneta nigripes
Microneta nigripes
Ischnyphantes nigripes
Micryphantes nigripes
Tmeticus levinsenii
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Taxonomy
Group: 
Arachnid (Spider)
Kingdom: 
Animalia
Phylum: 
Arthropoda
Class: 
Arachnida
Order: 
Araneae
Family: 
Linyphiidae
Habitat
Species appears to be able to tolerate a wide range of habitats/conditions in the Arctic (Saaristo & Koponen 1998).
Distribution

Distribution

Holarctic (Duperre 2013). Northeatern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Jan Mayen Island, Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya, western Siberia, Chukotka, the Faroe Islands, the Fennoscandian mountains, Scotland, and the French, Swiss, and Tyrolean Alps (Saaristo & Koponen 1998). In the NWT, the species has only been confirmed from Banks Island (Loboda et al. 2013).

Number of Occurrences

Loboda et al. (2013) collected an unknown number of specimens from Banks Island, NWT. Saaristo & Koponen (1998) include several records attributed to the NWT, including from the Sanikiluaq (Belcher Islands) and Akpatok (Ungava Bay), both of which should be correctly attributed to Nunavut. References: (1) Loboda et al. 2013. Unpublished spider data from Northern Biodiversity Program. (2) Duperre, N. 2013. Taxonomic revision of the spider genera Agyneta and Tennesseellum (Araneae, Linyphiidae) of North America north of Mexico with a study of the embolic division within Micronetinae sensu Saaristo & Tanasevitch 1996. Zootaxa 3674: 189 pp. (3) Saaristo, M.I. & Koponen, S. 1998. A review of northern Canadian spiders of the genus Agyneta (Araneae, Linyphiidae), with descriptions of two new species. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 76: 566-583.
General Status Rank
Rank: 
Undetermined
Status Rank Description: 
Regional experts consider this species to be poorly known and unrankable in the NWT.
S Rank: 
SU
Decision Process Description: 
Newly ranked in 2014 by R. Bennett. Rank reviewed in 2023; no change.
Last Updated: 
August 8, 2024
Status Designations

Canada – Assessment by Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada

COSEWIC Status: 
-

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