Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Tallusia  Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1972   4 species

Tallusia vindobonensis (Kulczyński, 1898)

Description
Male

Paracymbium with grooved terminal branch.
Prosoma yellow-brownish, with black marginal line. Sternum blackish. Legs yellow-brownish. Opisthosoma blackish.

Body length male: 2.2 mm
Female

Epigyne with longish scapus. 

Body length female: 2.6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy, Switzerland to Ukraine and Greece, Turkey
reproduction period in winter
Figures
Distribution List
Albania   (Vrenozi & Jäger, 2012) ||| Austria   (Nemenz, 1958) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (Bosmans et al., 2009) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Serbia   (Grbić et al., 2021) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 2019) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi, 1993) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman & Coşar, 2022a) ||| Ukraine   (Mikhailov, 2013) |||
References

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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

Bosmans R, Baert L, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H, Maelfait J-P, Van Keer J (2009) Spiders of Lesbos (Greece). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 24(suppl.): 1-70 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147 pdf

Danışman T, Coşar İ (2022a) Tallusia vindobonensis (Kulczyński, 1898) – a rare micronetid species, new to Turkey (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Munis Entomology and Zoology 17: 504-507 pdf

Gajdoš P, Černecká Ľ, Šestáková A (2019) Pannonic salt marshes revealed six new spiders to Slovakia (Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Linyphiidae, Lycosidae, Theridiidae). Biologia 74: 53-64 pdf

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

Hänggi A (1993) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna des Kantons Tessin IV - Weitere faunistisch bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde der Tessiner Montanstufe. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 66: 303-316 pdf

Hansen H (1995) Über die Arachniden-Fauna von urbanen Lebensräumen in Venedig - III. Die epigäischen Spinnen eines Stadtparkes (Arachnida: Araneae). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 44: 7-36 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

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

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

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

Nemenz H (1958) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna des Seewinkels (Burgenland, Österreich). Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (I) 167: 83-118 pdf

Polenec A, Thaler K (1980) Zwei wenig bekannte Deckennetzspinnen Südost-Europas: Centromerus vindobonensis Kulczynski und Leptyphantes istrianus Kulczynski (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 61: 103-111 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, Jäger P (2012) A faunistic study on ground-dwelling spiders (Araneae) in the Tirana district, Albania. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 81-87 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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