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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Decipiphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996   1 species

Decipiphantes decipiens (L. Koch, 1879)

Description

Prosoma light brown, slightly powdered with grey, with dark lateral margin. Sternum grey-brown. Femur light brown, other leg segments slightly darker. Coxa with slender black apical margin. Opisthosoma dark grey, ventrally almost black.

Distribution
  Presence
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Global distribution (WSC 2026): Scandinavia, Belarus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Mongolia
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Distribution List
Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Northern   (Esyunin & Kazantsev, 2008; Koponen et al., 1998) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
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

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp. pdf

Esyunin S L, Kazantsev D K (2008) On the spider (Aranei) fauna of the Pechoro-Ilychskiy Reserve (north Urals), with the description of a new Agroeca species (Liocranidae). Arthropoda Selecta 16: 245-250 pdf

Holm Å (1945) Zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna des Torneträskgebietes. Arkiv för Zoologi 36(A15): 1-80 pdf

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311 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

Koponen S, Marusik Y M, Tanasevitch A V (1998) New data on the spider fauna of the Polar Urals (Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 6: 109-119 pdf

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

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

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
18-07-2025 Distribution update Detail
09-01-2024 Image insert
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28-04-2014 Distribution update Detail