Silometopus braunianus Thaler, 1978
Description
Tibial apophysis long and bent. Prosoma chestnut-brown, shiny, vague blackish reticulate pattern. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma blackish, with 4 dorsal sigilla, outer margin of lung stigma and spinnerets sclerotised, with a dorsal scutum.
Body length male: 1.6 mmBody length female: 1.6 mm
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Thaler 1972b)
Pedipalp
(Thaler 1978a)
Tibial apophysis
(Thaler 1978a)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Thaler 1978a)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Thaler 1978a)
Habitus, lateral view
(Frick et al. 2010)
Epigyne
(Frick et al. 2010)
Vulva
(Thaler 1978a)
Vulva
(Frick et al. 2010)
Habitus, lateral view
(Frick et al. 2010)
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.
References
Frick H, Rėlys V, Komposch C (2010) Silometopus braunianus (Araneae, Linyphiidae) – neu für Österreich und die Schweiz Jahresberichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Graubünden 116: 59-64 
Hänggi A, Stäubli A (2012) Nachträge zum „Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen“: 4. Neunachweise von 2002 bis 2011. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 59-76
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
Thaler K (1972b) Über die Zwergspinnen Nordtirols (Österreich) (Aranei, Erigonida [sic]). Arachnologorum Congressus Internationalis V, Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on Arachnology, Brno. , pp. 239-248
Thaler K (1978a) Über wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen, V (Arachnida: Aranei, Erigonidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 28: 183-200
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2