Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Minicia  Thorell, 1875   6 species

Minicia candida Denis, 1946

Description

Cymbium with straight, forked apophysis. Prosoma yellowish-brownish, unicoloured. Opisthosoma whitish dorsally, grained grey ventrally.

Body length male: 1.5-1.7 mm
Body length female: 1.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Italy, Austria, North Macedonia, Ukraine
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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, 2000) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2017) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Vlasov, 2021) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Denis J (1965a) Notes sur les érigonides. XXX. Le genre Minicia Thorell. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 100: 181-205 pdf

Esyunin S L, Vlasov S V (2021) [Remarks to the fauna and biotopic distribution of spiders in the Talovskaya steppe]. In: Steppes of Northern Eurasia. Proceedings of the IX international symposium. OSU Publishing House, Orenburg. pp. 300-304 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

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Thaler K (1986a) Über wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen, VII. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 59: 487-498 pdf

Thaler K (1993) Über wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen - IX (Arachnida: Aranei, Linyphiidae: Erigoninae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 100: 641-654 pdf

Thaler K (2000) Fragmenta faunistica Tirolensia - XIII (Arachnida: Araneae; Myriapoda: Diplopoda; Insecta, Diptera: Mycetophiloidea, Psychodidae, Trichoceridae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 87: 243-256 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
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