araneae - Mughiphantes styriacus

Mughiphantes styriacus (Thaler, 1984)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011910

Description

Paracymbium with distally furcated terminal branch, basal branch with cone-shaped tooth. Epigyne with very small stretcher. Prosoma brown-yellow. Legs brown-yellow. Opisthosoma blackish with vague spots. Body length male: 2.5-2.7 mm
Body length female: 2.7-3.2 mm

Additional information

high alpine species, Northeast Alps

Character states from linyphiid key

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2026): Austria

Phenology



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Figures

Pedipalp
(Thaler 1984c)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler 1984c)

Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

Lamella characteristica
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

Lamella characteristica
(Thaler 1984c)

Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

Epigyne
(Thaler 1984c)

Chelicerae, frontal view
(Thaler 1984c)

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

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

Kropf C, Horak P (1996) Die Spinnen der Steiermark (Arachnida, Araneae). Mitteilungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines für Steiermark Sonderheft: 1-112

Thaler K (1984c) Weitere Lepthyphantes-Arten der mughi-Gruppe aus den Alpen (Arachnida: Aranei, Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 91: 913-924

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2