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

Mughiphantes variabilis  (Kulczyński, 1887)

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 2024): Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia)
Phenology
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Figures
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   (no references) ||| France   (no references) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (no references) |||
References

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

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

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

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

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
18-03-2014 Image insert