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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Acartauchenius  Simon, 1884   11 species

Acartauchenius minor (Millidge, 1979)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009322

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Description
Male

Prosoma pale brown, with blackish fovea and striae; head raised into a shallow cone, anterior part with fine short hairs. Sternum yellow, reticulated with grey. Legs pale yellow. TmI at 0.41. Opisthosoma grey, covered with hairs of moderate length. Palp: Suprategular apophysis curves inwards to the mesal side.

Prosoma length: 0.6 mm.

Body length male: 1.2 mm
Female

Female unknown.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Millidge 1979)

species

male Pedipalp
(Millidge 1979)

species

male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Millidge 1979)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Millidge 1979)

Distribution List
Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

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

Millidge A F (1979) Some erigonine spiders from southern Europe. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 316-328 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