Family: Cybaeidae Banks, 1892 | key
Genus: Argyroneta Latreille, 1804 | key
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    Argyroneta aquatica (Clerck, 1757)      [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidersp:021318]
    Description
    Prosoma dark brown. Sternum dark brown. Chelicerae dark brown. Legs dark brown. Opisthosoma dark grey-brown to black. In living specimens opisthosoma and sternum shining silver due to attached air. Whole body covered with dense, specialized hairs, that are especially long and partly occur in tufts on leg IV.

    Body length male: 10-15 mm, Body length female: 8-9 mm

    Additional information
    big water spider, similar to Agelenidae, that lives in clean, densely overgrown still waters and that leaves the water only exceptionally. Builds several retreats filled with air under water and an irregular web, swims very well, ventral side upwards
    Distribution
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    Global distribution (Platnick 2013): Palearctic

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    References

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    Dahl M (1937) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VIII: Hahniidae, Argyronetidae. Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 100-118.

    De Blauwe R (1973) Revision de la famille des Agelenidae (Araneae) de la région Mediterranéenne. Bull Inst R Sci Nat Belg 49: 1-111.

    Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British Spiders 2. Ray Soc London

    Loksa I (1969) Pokok I-Araneae I. Fauna Hungariae 97: 2.1-2.133.

    Otto S, Tramp S (2011) Caucasian Spiders – A faunistic Database on the Spiders of the Caucasus (Version 2.0 Beta).
    Internet: db.caucasus-spiders.info/Area/152 (July 2011)

    Platnick N I (2013) The world spider catalog, version 13.5. American Museum of Natural History, online at http://research.amnh.org/iz/spiders/catalog. DOI: 10.5531/db.iz.0001

    Roberts M J (1995) Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe. Collins Field Guide Bath

    van Helsdingen P J (2010) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org