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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Sintula  Simon, 1884   16 species

Sintula spiniger (Balogh, 1935)

Description

Cymbium with process, ± as long as wide, with club-shaped hairs. Paracymbium massive, with bulge-like, blunt processes. Prosoma light yellow, shiny, with narrow, grey margin. Sternum dark brown, shiny. Chelicerae yellow, anterior cheliceral furrow margin with 3 denticles. Legs reddish yellow. Femur tinged with black. Tibia I black.

Body length male: 2.5 mm
Body length female: 2.5 mm
Additional information

In leaf litter of open deciduous forests

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Austria to Greece and Russia (Europe)
Phenology
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Distribution List
Albania   (Vrenozi & Deltshev, 2012a) ||| Austria   (Hebar, 1980) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Czechia   (Řezáč et al., 2021; Růžička, 2011; Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Greece   (Komnenov et al., 2016) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Serbia   (Grbić et al., 2021) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015; Gregorič & Kuntner, 2009) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Balogh J, Loksa I (1947) Faunistische Angaben über die Spinnen des Karpatenbeckens II. Fragmenta Faunistica Hungarica 10: 61-68 pdf

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Denis J (1968b) Notes d'aranéologie marocaine. X. Les érigonides du Maroc. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles du Maroc 47: 137-164 pdf

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

Grbić G, Hänggi A, Krnjajić S (2021) Spiders (Araneae) of Subotica Sandland (Serbia): additional arguments in environmental protection. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 67: 15-61 pdf

Gregorič M, Kuntner M (2009) Epigean spider diversity in the classical karst. Hacquetia 8: 67-78 pdf

Hebar K (1980) Zur Faunistik, Populationsdynamik und Produktionsbiologie der Spinnen (Araneae) des Hackelsberges im Leithagebirge (Burgenland). Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (I) 189: 83-231 pdf

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

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Komnenov M, Pitta E, Zografou K, Chatzaki M (2016) Discovering the still unexplored arachnofauna of the National Park of Dadia-Lefkimi-Soufli, NE Greece: a taxonomic review with description of new species. Zootaxa 4096: 1-66 pdf

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

Miller F (1968) Sintula buchari sp. n., eine neue Zwergspinne aus der Tschechoslowakei (Araneida, Micryphantidae). Acta entomologica Bohemoslovaca 65: 241-245 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Řezáč M, Růžička V, Hula V, Dolanský J, Machač O, Roušar A (2021) Spiders newly observed in Czechia in recent years – overlooked or invasive species? BioInvasions Records 10: 555-566 pdf

Růžička V (2011) Arachnofauna České republiky. Pavouk 31: 2-3 pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 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

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

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