Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Megalepthyphantes  Wunderlich, 1994   12 species

Megalepthyphantes pseudocollinus Saaristo, 1997

Description

Male palp with S-shaped lamella characteristica. Epigyne with visible part of scapus approximately square. Prosoma yellow-brown, with dark median line, bifurcated anteriorly. Sternum blackish. Legs yellowish-brown, darkly annulated. Opisthosoma grey with black stripes and small silver spots.

Body length male: 4.58-4.96 mm
Body length female: 4.81-5.19 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Caucasus, Turkey, Iran
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Distribution List
Austria   (Saaristo, 1997a) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016; Saaristo, 1997a) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Russia, Central   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Plakkhina et al., 2025) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Western   (no references) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Türkeş et al., 2015) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019; Hirna & Zhukovets, 2022) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147 pdf

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.

Hirna A, Zhukovets E (2022) Catalogue of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Lviv oblast (Ukraine). National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians, Lviv, 311 pp. pdf

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311 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

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Otto S, Japoshvili G (2018) The spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Lagodekhi Reserve, Georgia: faunistic results of a transect study and an updated checklist. Arachnology 17: 375-391 pdf

Plakkhina E, Sozontov A, Esyunin S, Ivanova N, Shumigay D (2025) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of PSU’s Botanical Garden (Perm, Russia). Biodiversity Data Journal 13 (e163152): 1-20 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Saaristo M I (1997a) Description of Megalepthyphantes pseudocollinus, n. sp. (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Micronetinae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10: 257-259 pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

Türkeş T, Karabulut H, Demir H, Seyyar O (2015) Contributions to the Linyphiidae fauna of Turkey (Arachnida: Araneae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 39: 560-564 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

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