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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Mughiphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1999   28 species

Mughiphantes variabilis (Kulczyński, 1887)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011915

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Description

Cymbium with small bulge. Epigyne with scapus, not distinctly marked off, widest at base, deeply indented posteriorly. Prosoma brownish black. Legs yellowish. Opisthosoma blackish or spotted.

Body length male: 2.4-2.8 mm
Body length female: 2.4-2.8 mm
Additional information

800-3400 m

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Thaler 1982a)

species

male Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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male Lamella characteristica
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne
(Thaler 1982a)

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female Epigyne, aboral view
(Thaler 1982a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(van Helsdingen 1982b)

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.

Austria   (Thaler, 1995) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 pdf

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

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

Helsdingen P J van (1982b) Quelques remarques sur les Linyphiidae mentionnés par Di Caporiacco. Revue Arachnologique 3: 155-180 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

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

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

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Thaler K (1982a) Weitere wenig bekannte Lepthyphantes-Arten der Alpen (Arachnida: Aranei, Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 89: 395-417 pdf

Thaler K (1995) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 5. Linyphiidae 1: Linyphiinae (sensu Wiehle) (Arachnida: Araneida). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 82: 153-190 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

Updates
03-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
18-03-2014 Image insert