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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Mecopisthes  Simon, 1926   14 species

Mecopisthes alter  Thaler, 1991

Description
Tibial apophysis long, claw-shaped. Prosoma brown, with blackish pattern. Legs yellowish. Opisthosoma blackish, with 2 pairs of sigilla. Body length male: 1.3 mm
Body length female: 1.5 mm
Additional information
only in South Tyrol (I) as yet, in two xerothermic habitats, dry meadow and bush forest
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Italy
Phenology
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"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.

Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) |||
References

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Thaler K (1991a) Über wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen-VIII (Arachnida: Aranei, Linyphiidae: Erigoninae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 98: 165-184 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf