Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Mansuphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996   12 species

Mansuphantes simoni (Kulczyński, 1894)

Description

Paracymbium with small blunt hump on transverse branch. Epigyne with scapus, distinctly separated form lateral plates, strongly projecting in lateral view. Prosoma olive-brown. Legs yellowish-brown. Opisthosoma grey with indistinct dark pattern.

Body length male: 1.8-2.2 mm
Body length female: 1.8-2.6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Omitted from the Italian checklist by Pantini & Isaia (2018); Romania should be confirmed
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Switzerland
Phenology
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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.

Belgium  Removed (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69 pdf

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

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

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2018) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version June 2018). pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 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

Wunderlich J (1985d) Lepthyphantes pseudoarciger n. sp. und verwandte Arten der Lepthyphantes pallidus-Gruppe (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 66: 115-118 pdf

Updates
02-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
10-06-2023 Distribution update Detail
29-12-2014 Distribution update Detail