Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Trichoncus  Simon, 1884   21 species

Trichoncus sordidus Simon, 1884

Description

Tibial apophysis with a small, pointed and a larger, rounded process beside large, bent process. Epigyne with lateral plates, leaving open a narrow V-shaped slit medially. Prosoma brown, median spot and radial stripes darker. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma black.

Body length male: 1.55-1.75 mm
Body length female: 1.6-1.9 mm
Additional information

biology mostly unknown

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France and Germany to Greece
Figures
Distribution List
Albania   (Vrenozi & Deltshev, 2012a) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Czechia  Removed (Buchar & Růžička, 2002) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Germany   (Wiehle, 1967; Blick et al., 2016) ||| Greece   (Russell-Smith, 2014) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kuralt et al., 2024) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
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

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Buchar J, Růžička V (2002) Catalogue of spiders of the Czech Republic. Peres Publishers, Praha, 351 pp. pdf

Denis J (1965b) Notes sur les érigonides. XXVIII Le genre Trichoncus (Araneae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (N.S.) 1: 425-477 pdf

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.

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

IJland S, Helsdingen P J van (2014) On some spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from the surroundings of Castellabate, Italy. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 34: 16-33 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

Kuralt Ž, Pajek Arambašič N, Ferle M, Kostanjšek R (2024) A contribution to the Slovenian spider fauna – V. Natura Sloveniae 26: 29-42 pdf

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

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

Russell-Smith A (2014) Spiders from the Ionian islands of Kerkyra (Corfu) and Lefkada, Greece (Arachnida: Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 23: 285-300 pdf

Vrenozi B, Deltshev C (2012a) Faunistic and zoogeographical analyses of Linyphiidae (Araneae) in the Tirana district of Albania. Journal of International Environmental Application & Science 7: 423-426 pdf

Wiehle H (1967) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der deutschen Spinnenfauna V. Senckenbergiana Biologica 48: 1-36 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

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