Carorita limnaea (Crosby & Bishop, 1927)

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Described:

Distribution: North America, Western, Central and Northern Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), China


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Taxonomic References
Oedothorax limnaeus Crosby & Bishop, 1927: 149, pl. 16, f. 11-14 (Dmf) Original description
Carorita limnaea Duffey & Merrett, 1963: 575, f. 1-8 (mf, T from Oedothorax)
Carorita limnaea Holm, 1968a: 188, f. 10-11 (mf)
Carorita limnaea Moritz, 1973: 186, f. 11-18 (mf)
Carorita limnaea Locket, Millidge & Merrett, 1974: 93, f. 56A-C (mf)
Carorita limnaea Palmgren, 1976: 44, f. 14.1-3 (mf)
Carorita limnaea Millidge, 1977: 40, f. 158 (m)
Carorita limnaea Roberts, 1987: 108, f. 53d (mf)
Carorita limnaea Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 124, f. 353 (mf)
Carorita limnaeus Fei, Zhu & Gao, 1994: 47, f. 1-2 (f)
Carorita limnaea Zujko-Miller, 1999: 49, f. 8-9 (mf)
Carorita limnaea Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 160, f. 89A-B (f)
Carorita limnaea Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 90, f. 792-795 (mf)
Carorita limnaea Tanasevitch, 2007a: 147, f. 33-37, 44, 46 (m)
Carorita limnaea Lemke, 2019a: 49, f. 3 (m)
Carorita limnaea Gnelitsa, 2025: 286, f. 1a-d, 3a-e, 5a-d, 7a-l, 9a-f, 10a-d, 11a-f, 12a-c, 13a-d, g-h (mf)
References

Crosby, C. R. & Bishop, S. C. (1927). New species of Erigoneae and Theridiidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 35: 147-154. -- Show included taxa

Duffey, E. & Merrett, P. (1963). Carorita limnaea (Crosby & Bishop), a linyphiid spider new to Britain, from Wybunbury Moss, Cheshire. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (13) 6(69): 573-576. doi: 10.1080/00222936308651400 -- Show included taxa

Fei, R. I., Zhu, C. D. & Gao, J. C. (1994). [Description of four new record genera and four new record species from Changbai Mountains, Jilin]. Territory & Natural Resources Study 3: 47-50. -- Show included taxa

Gnelitsa, V. A. (2025). A new species of Carorita (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Ukraine, with a redescription of the type species of the genus. Zoodiversity 59(4): 285-312. doi: 10.15407/zoo2025.04.285 -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- Show included taxa

Holm, Å. (1968a). A contribution to the spider fauna of Sweden. Zoologiska Bidrag från Uppsala 37: 183-209. -- Show included taxa

Lemke, M. (2019a). Weitere Erstnachweise von Webspinnen aus Norddeutschland (Araneae: Clubionidae, Linyphiidae, Mimetidae, Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 48-53. doi: 10.30963/aramit5709 -- Show included taxa

Locket, G. H., Millidge, A. F. & Merrett, P. (1974). British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp. -- Show included taxa

Millidge, A. F. (1977). The conformation of the male palpal organs of linyphiid spiders, and its application to the taxonomic and phylogenetic analysis of the family (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 1-60. -- Show included taxa

Moritz, M. (1973). Neue und seltene Spinnen (Araneae) und Weberknechte (Opiliones) aus der DDR. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (N.F.) 20(1-3): 173-220. doi: 10.1002/mmnd.19730200106 -- Show included taxa

Palmgren, P. (1976). Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens. VII. Linyphiidae 2 (Micryphantinae, mit Ausnahme der Linyphiindae-ähnlichen). Fauna Fennica 29: 1-126. -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1987). The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2: Linyphiidae and check list. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2007a). New linyphiid taxa from Siberia and the Russian Far East, with notes on the genera Notioscopus Simon and Carorita Duffey et Merrett (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 15(2, 2006): 141-152. [[publ. Mar. 23, 2007]] -- Show included taxa

Zujko-Miller, J. (1999). On the phylogenetic relationships of Sisicottus hibernus (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae). Journal of Arachnology 27: 44-52. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-08-30 New taxonomic reference entry Gnelitsa, 2025
2019-03-22 New taxonomic reference entry Lemke, 2019a

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