Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Bordea  Bosmans, 1995   3 species

Bordea cavicola (Simon, 1884)

Description
Male

Resembles B. berlandi. Legs very long. Palp: Without deep retrolateral incision on tibia. Paracymbium with much shorter distal branch.

Body length male: 2.2 mm
Female

Resembles B. berlandi. Legs very long. Epigyne: With long, parallel and rebordered hook.

Body length female: 2.5 mm
Additional information

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, France
Figures
Distribution List
France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Bosmans R, Cardoso P, Crespo L C (2010) A review of the linyphiid spiders of Portugal, with the description of six new species (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 2473: 1-67 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

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

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 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
29-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
28-09-2016 Datasheet update Detail
05-11-2013 Image insert