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. 2013 Mar 14;8(3):e59286. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059286

Table 1. Spider species recorded in the brood cells of Trypoxylon figulus.

Family Species Individuals Shading index1
Adults Immatures
Araneidae Araneus angulatus Clerck, 1757 0 2 na
Araneus diadematus Clerck, 1757 0 1 0.38
Araneus sp. 7 82
Araniella cucurbitina (Clerck, 1757) 47 0 0.44
Araniella opisthographa (Kulczynski, 1905) 18 0 0.54
Araniella sp. 17 88
Argiope bruennichi (Scopoli, 1772) 1 132 0.24
Araneus sturmi (Hahn, 1831) 64 0 0.77
Mangora acalypha (Walckenaer, 1802) 588 7 0.30
Nuctenea umbratica (Clerck, 1757) 0 8 0.33
undet. 4 11
Linyphiidae Floronia bucculenta (Clerck, 1757) 1 6 0.40
Linyphia hortensis Sundevall, 1830 3 0 0.62
Linyphia triangularis (Clerck, 1757) 21 65 0.53
Meioneta rurestris (C.L.Koch, 1836) 8 0 0.25
Microlinyphia pusilla (Sundevall, 1830) 7 3 0.27
Neriene radiata (Walckenaer, 1842) 4 0 0.60
Tenuiphantes tenuis (Blackwall, 1852) 1 0 0.31
undet. 19 42
Salticidae Heliophanus flavipes (Hahn, 1832) 1 1 0.17
undet. 1 0
Tetragnathidae Metellina sp. 1 39 >0.50
Tetragnatha extensa (Linnaeus, 1758) 22 7 0.30
undet. 2 27
Theridiidae Anelosimus vittatus (C.L.Koch, 1836) 1 0 0.28
Cryptachaea riparia (Blackwall, 1834) 21 1 0.18
Enoplognatha ovata (Clerck, 1757) 158 34 0.46
Enoplognatha sp. 9 146
Neottiura bimaculata (Linnaeus, 1767) 2 0 0.26
Parasteatoda lunata (Clerck, 1757) 1 0 0.18
Phylloneta impressum L. Koch, 1881 3504 2263 0.26
Phylloneta sisyphia (Clerck, 1757) 3 0 0.37
Platnickina tincta (Walckenaer, 1802) 6 0 0.50
Theridion pinastri L. Koch, 1872 24 1 na
Theridion varians Hahn, 1833 13 0 0.31
Theridion sp. 2 7
undet. 12 15
Thomisidae Philodromus cf. aureolus (Clerck, 1757) 1 1 na
Philodromus cespitum (Walckenaer, 1802) 0 1
undet. 0 1 na
Undetermined 1 5
Total 4595 2995
1

Niche positions range from 0 for the species with maximal preference for open habitats to 1 for the species with maximal preference for closed forest [45] (See Materials and methods for details). na: not available.