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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Mansuphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996   12 species

Mansuphantes aridus (Thorell, 1875)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011495

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Description

Male palp with straight lamella. Paracymbium with blunt tooth on transverse branch. Epigyne with rounded visible part of scapus, projecting somewhat in lateral view. Prosoma yellow-brown. Legs pale yellow. Opisthosoma grey, with dark transverse stripes posteriorly.

Body length male: 1.7-1.9 mm
Body length female: 1.7-1.9 mm
Additional information

mountain species (East Alps), apparent preference for open pine forest, pubescent oak forests and for fallows with lots of young wood

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Switzerland, Austria, Italy
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
sporadically also in other months
Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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male Pedipalp
(Thaler 1994a)

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male Paracymbium
(Thaler 1994a)

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male Palpal tibia
(Thaler 1994a)

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female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne
(Thaler 1994a)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Thaler 1994a)

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female Epigyne, aboral view
(Thaler 1994a)

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) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| 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

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

Thaler K (1994a) Vikariante Verbreitung im Artenkreis von Lepthyphantes mansuetus in Mitteleuropa (Araneida: Linyphiidae). Entomologia Generalis 18: 171-185 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
02-10-2025 Distribution update Detail