Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Bolyphantes  C. L. Koch, 1837   9 species

Bolyphantes kolosvaryi (Caporiacco, 1936)

Description
Male

Anterior metatarsi with many spines. Palp: characteristic patellar spine, suprategular apophysis with straight lower branch, posterior margin of lamella slightly curved in anterior direction.

Prosoma length: 1.5-2.0 mm, prosoma width: 1.2-1.4 mm.

Body length male: 2.7-4.1 mm
Female

Anterior metatarsi with many spines. Epigyne: apical part of scape rigid and triangular in lateral view, with attached knob (flexible).

Prosoma length: 1.5-2.0 mm, prosoma width: 1.2-1.4 mm.

Body length female: 2.7-4.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Switzerland, Italy, Balkans
Phenology
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Distribution List
Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| France   (Déjean & Danflous, 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2017) ||| Serbia   (Ćurčić et al., 2007) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi, 2003) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Ćurčić B P M, Deltshev C C, Tomić V T, Ćurčić S B (2007) Biodiversity of spiders: on some taxa new to Serbia and to science. Archives of Biological Sciences Belgrade 59: 19P-20P pdf

Déjean S, Danflous S (2016) Deux espèces d’araignées nouvelles pour la faune de France, découvertes en Aubrac (Aveyron, Midi-Pyrénées): Bathyphantes setiger F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1894 et Bolyphantes kolosvaryi (Caporiacco, 1936) (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 3: 16-20 pdf

Hänggi A (2003) Nachträge zum "Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen" - 3. Neunachweise von 1999 bis 2002 und Nachweise synanthroper Spinnen Arachnologische Mitteilungen 26: 36-54 pdf

Helsdingen P J van, Thaler K, Deltshev C (2001) The European species of Bolyphantes with an attempt of a phylogenetic analysis (Araneae Linyphiidae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 80: 3-35 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

Komnenov M (2017) New data on spider fauna (Araneae) of Shar Mountain, north-western Macedonia. Proceedings of the 5th Congress of the Ecologists of Macedonia, with international participation (Ohrid, 19th-22nd October 2016). Special issues of the Macedonian Ecological Society 13: 44-61 pdf

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

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
29-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
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06-01-2019 Distribution update Detail
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11-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail