Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Staveleya  Sherwood, 2021   4 species

Staveleya pusilla (Menge, 1869)

Description
Male

Tibial apophysis with several teeth on margin. 

Body length male: 1.1 mm
Female

Epigyne with small, quadrangular median plate.

Additional information

The figures by Locket & Millidge (1953) sub Mecopisthes pusillus show Mecopisthes peusi Wunderlich, 1972.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Spain: the records are counted as Mecopisthes peusi (also by Branco et al. 2019)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Central Europe and Italy to Greece and Ukraine
Figures
Distribution List
Austria   (Thaler, 1999b) ||| Bulgaria   (Naumova et al., 2021) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France  Removed (Danflous et al., 2020b) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Greece   (Bosmans et al., 2009) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Serbia   (Grbić et al., 2021) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi & Stäubli, 2012) ||| Ukraine   (Mikhailov, 2013) |||
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