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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Diplocephalus  Bertkau, 1883   39 species

Diplocephalus rostratus Schenkel, 1934

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010076

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Description

Epigyne with inner margins of lateral epigynal plates tail-like protruding toward anterior end. Prosoma brownish, with blackish pattern. Male blunt conical cephalic lobe, provided with hairs on anterior side. Legs brownish yellow. Opisthosoma blackish.

Body length male: 1.9-2.1 mm
Body length female: 2.0-2.2 mm
Additional information

in damp crevice system of stony debris in high alpine region, approximately 2700-3500 m

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Austria, Italy
Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Thaler 1970)

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male Pedipalp
(Thaler 1970)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Holm 1970)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Holm 1970)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Thaler 1970)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Thaler 1970)

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male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Thaler 1970)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Holm 1970)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Thaler 1970)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Thaler 1970)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Austria   (Thaler, 1970) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Holm Å (1970) Notes on spiders collected by the "Vega" Expedition 1878-1880. Entomologica Scandinavica 1: 188-208 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Thaler K (1970) Über einige wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen, I (Arachn., Araneae, Erigonidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 58: 255-276 pdf

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
10-07-2023 Distribution update Detail
11-02-2014 Image insert