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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Bathyphantes  Menge, 1866   13 species

Bathyphantes eumenis (L. Koch, 1879)

Description
Male

Prosoma dark yellow-brown. Palps and legs brownish yellow to red-yellow. Sternum black-brown, heart-shaped. Chelicerae with 3 teeth.

Body length male: 2.1 mm
Female

Prosoma brownish-yellow, with black lateral margin. Sternum black-brown, heart-shaped. Chelicerae with 4 teeth. Palps and legs brownish yellow. Opisthosoma blackish green, dorsally with 4-5 yellowish chevrons, sometimes indistinct. Epigyne characteristic.

Prosoma length: 1.2 mm.

Body length female: 2.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Records from Belgium, France and Germany refer to B. eumenis buchari (Blick, pers. comm.)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Czechia, Poland, Finland, Russia (Europe to Far East), China, Alaska, Canada
Phenology
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Distribution List
Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Norway   (Løvbrekke, unpubl.) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Northern   (Esyunin & Kazantsev, 2008; Marusik et al., 2016a) ||| Ukraine   (Gnelitsa, 2004b) |||
References

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

Gnelitsa V A (2004b) [Preliminary data on spiders of the family Linyphiidae of the Vyzhnitsky National Nature Park (Carpathians, Ukraine)]. Nature Reserves in Ukraine 10: 86-89 pdf

Holm Å (1967) Spiders (Araneae) from west Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 184(1): 1-99 pdf

Holm Å (1973) On the Spiders collected during the Swedish Expeditions to Novaya Zemlya and Yenisey in 1875 and 1876. Zoologica Scripta 2: 71-110 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

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Marusik Y M, Koponen S, Makarova O L (2016a) A survey of spiders (Araneae) collected on the arctic island of Dolgiy (69°12′N), Barents Sea. Arachnology 17: 10-24 pdf

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Tanasevitch A V (2011b) On synonymy of linyphiid spiders of the Russian fauna (Arachnida: Aranei: Linyphiidae). 2. Arthropoda Selecta 20: 129-143 pdf

Wozny M, Czajka M (1985) Bathyphantes eumenis (L. Koch, 1879) (Aranei, Linyphiidae) in Poland, and its synonyms. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 55: 575-582 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

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