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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Erigone  Audouin, 1826   28 species

Erigone tenuimana Simon, 1884

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010516

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Description
Male

Resembles E. cristopalpus and E. tirolensis, but it is clearly smaller in the dimensions. Rudimentary posterior tooth of the embolic division, from cristatopalpus they can also be distinguished by their relatively smaller tibial pit, from tirolensis by the shape of the apophysis-like retrolateral border of the pit.

Prosoma length: 0.9 mm, prosoma width: 0.7 mm.

Body length male: 2 mm
Female

Resembles E. cristopalpus and E. tirolensis. Characteristic shape of the lateral and median plates of the vulva and lack of anteriolateral teeth on the chelicerae.

Prosoma length: 1.0 mm, prosoma width: 0.7 mm.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe (Alps)
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Muster & Hänggi 2009)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Muster & Hänggi 2009)

species

male Embolic division, prolateral-ventral view
(Muster & Hänggi 2009)

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male Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Muster & Hänggi 2009)

species

male Palpal tibia
(Muster & Hänggi 2009)

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male Chelicera
(Muster & Hänggi 2009)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Muster & Hänggi 2009)

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female Chelicera
(Muster & Hänggi 2009)

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   (Muster & Hänggi, 2009) ||| France   (Muster & Hänggi, 2009) ||| Germany   (Muster & Hänggi, 2009; Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Switzerland   (Muster & Hänggi, 2009) |||
References

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 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

Muster C, Hänggi A (2009) The Erigone psychrophila group in the Alps (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Contributions to Natural History 12: 987-1005 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
11-09-2025 Distribution update Detail
28-09-2016 Datasheet update Detail