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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Bathyphantes  Menge, 1866   13 species

Bathyphantes reprobus (Kulczyński, 1916)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009592

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Description

Prosoma brown, median with vague, triangular spot, 3 rows of longer hairs between this spot and eye field. Prosomal margin weakly darkened. Sternum dark brown. Chelicerae dark brown. Femur brown like prosoma, remaining leg segments yellow-brown. Metatarsus and tibia proximally with narrow, bright ring. Opisthosoma black-grey with dark median band, laterally in anterior half with 2 small diffuse spots, medially and posteriorly with 3 larger spots.

Body length male: 3-4 mm
Body length female: 3-4 mm
Additional information

holarctically distributed

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): North America, Northern Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East)
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Holm 1945)

species

male Tip of embolus
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Embolic division, frontal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Lamella characteristica, prolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Paracymbium
(Holm 1945)

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male Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Leg I, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Femur I, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Holm 1945)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Holm 1945)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Tibia and metatarsus I, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Tibia I, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Habitus, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Distribution List
Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Northern   (Koponen et al., 1998) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
References

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp. pdf

Holm Å (1945) Zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna des Torneträskgebietes. Arkiv för Zoologi 36(A15): 1-80 pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Koponen S, Marusik Y M, Tanasevitch A V (1998) New data on the spider fauna of the Polar Urals (Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 6: 109-119 pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
17-07-2025 Distribution update Detail
18-02-2023 Image insert
22-05-2018 Image insert