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Tetragnathidae  Menge, 1866 / Pachygnatha  Sundevall, 1823   10 species

Pachygnatha terilis Thaler, 1991

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014050

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Description
Prosoma pale red to red-orange. Body length male: 3.7-4.1 mm
Body length female: 4.2-5 mm
Additional information
in damp and shadowed habitats (alluvial forest). Possibly Adriatic-Mediterranean species, ranging to south border of Alps in the north
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Switzerland, Austria, Italy
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Thaler 1991b)

species

male Embolic division
(Thaler 1991b)

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male Embolic division
(Thaler 1991b)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Thaler 1991b)

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female Epigyne, dorsal view
(Thaler 1991b)

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female Receptaculum, dorsal view
(Thaler 1991b)

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 & Knoflach, 2003) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi, 1999) |||
References

Hänggi A (1999) Nachträge zum "Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen" - 2. Neunachweise von 1993 bis 1999 Archnologische Mitteilungen 18: 17-37 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

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Thaler K (1991b) Pachygnatha terilis n.sp. aus den Südalpen, mit Bemerkungen zu einigen Araneidae der Alpenländer (Arachnida: Aranei, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 78: 47-57 pdf

Thaler K, Knoflach B (2003) Zur Faunistik der Spinnen (Araneae) von Österreich: Orbiculariae p.p. (Araneidae, Tetragnathidae, Theridiosomatidae, Uloboridae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 35: 613-655 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
12-09-2025 Distribution update Detail