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

Mughiphantes whymperi (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011918

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Description

Paracymbium with small tooth in angle between transverse and terminal branch. Terminal branch with large lateral lobe. Prosoma yellowish-brown. Legs yellowish-brown. Metatarsus with lateral bristles. Opisthosoma blackish grey.

Body length male: 2.5-3.2 mm
Body length female: 2.5-3.2 mm
Additional information

in the mountains

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Ireland, Britain, Scandinavia, Russia (Europe, South Siberia)
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Roberts 1987)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Lamella characteristica
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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male Lamella characteristica
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Cymbium, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

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female Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Leg I
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Leg IV
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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.

Faroe Islands   (Lissner et al., 2016b) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Northern   (Mikhailov, 2013) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 pdf

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

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Lissner J, Jensen J-K, Hansen L J, Simonsen W, Kelduni R, Nissen K (2016b) An updated checklist of spiders (Araneae) of the Faroe Islands. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 63: 197-240 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp. pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

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

Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp. 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
19-09-2025 Image insert
11-09-2025 Distribution update Detail
23-09-2015 Image insert
26-03-2013 Image insert