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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Heterotrichoncus  Wunderlich, 1970   1 species

Heterotrichoncus pusillus (Miller, 1958)

Description

Prosoma yellow, or red-brown, with black margin. Sternum black-brown, gnathocoxae yellowish. Legs light yellow, pretty long bristled. Opisthosoma blackish.

Body length female: 1.35 mm
Additional information

in short dry grass, in warm localities

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, France, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Albania, Ukraine, Russia (Europe)
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Distribution List
Albania   (van Helsdingen & IJland, 2015) ||| Austria   (Malicky, 1972a) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Russia, Central   (Tanasevitch & Alekseenko, 2012) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Spain   (Pérez Sánchez & Méndez Iglesias, 2013; Branco et al., 2019) ||| Ukraine   (Nadolny, 2020) |||
References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

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

Helsdingen P J van, IJland S (2015) A quick scan of the spider fauna in the surroundings of Përmet, Albania (Arachnida, Araneae) - preliminary report. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 35: 15-33 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Malicky H (1972a) Spinnenfunde aus dem Burgenland und aus Niederösterreich (Araneae). Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten aus dem Burgenland 48: 101-108 pdf

Miller F (1958b) Drei neue Spinnenarten aus den mährischen Steppengebieten. Věstník Československé Zoologické Společnosti v Praze 22: 148-155 pdf

Nadolny A A (2020) [New data on the species composition of spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) in Tarkhankut Peninsula, Crimea]. Proceedings of T. I. Vyazemsky Karadag scientific station - Natural reserve of the RAS 3(15): 29-60 pdf

Pérez Sánchez D, Méndez Iglesias M (2013) Arañas epígeas (Araneae) de los hayedos del Parque Natural de la Montaña de Covadonga (Norte de España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 23: 83-89 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

Tanasevitch A V, Alekseenko Y G (2012) To the knowledge of the linyphiid spider fauna (Aranei: Linyphiidae) of limestone steppes in the Russian Plain. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 8: 193-198 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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