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

Mughiphantes baebleri (Lessert, 1910)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011887

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Description

Paracymbium with slender and rounded terminal branch. Lamella of male male palp at half length with denticles on both sides. Epigynal plate wider than scapus and therefore visible from ventral. Prosoma black-brown. Legs yellowish-brown. Opisthosoma blackish.

Body length male: 2.1-2.5 mm
Body length female: 2.1-2.5 mm
Additional information

nival zone of W- and E-Alps, 2500-3600 m

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Thaler 1982a)

species

male Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

species

male Lamella characteristica
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne
(Thaler 1982a)

species

female Epigyne, aboral view
(Thaler 1982a)

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   (Thaler, 1995) ||| France   (Michaud & Forêt, 2018) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
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

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

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

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Michaud A, Forêt J (2018) Découverte en France d'Agyneta alpica Tanasevitch, 2000 et de Mughiphantes baebleri (Lessert, 1910) (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 5: 11-13 pdf

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

Thaler K (1995) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 5. Linyphiidae 1: Linyphiinae (sensu Wiehle) (Arachnida: Araneida). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 82: 153-190 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
03-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
06-10-2018 Distribution update Detail