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Anyphaenidae  Bertkau, 1878 / Anyphaena  Sundevall, 1833   6 species

Anyphaena pontica Weiss, 1988

Description
Male

Male unknown.

Female

Prosoma brown-yellow, dark marmoration, without clear border but with clear median spot, with white hairs. Sternum dark, clearer medially. PME separated by almost twice their diameter. Legs darker than in A. accentuata.

prosoma length: 2.3 mm, prosoma width: 1.8 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Romania, Turkey
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"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.

Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Weiss I (1988) Anyphaena pontica n.sp. aus Rumänien (Arachnida: Araneae: Anyphaenidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 75: 143-145 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 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
26-06-2025 Distribution update Detail
09-05-2016 Datasheet update Detail