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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Centromerus  Dahl, 1886   71 species

Centromerus cinctus (Simon, 1884)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009723

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Description
Male

Embolus nearly semi-circular, with subterminal tooth. Prosoma yellow-orange, with greyish striae and margin. Eyes narrowly bordered with black. Legs yellowish orange. Opisthosoma grey.

Body length male: 1.3-1.8 mm
Female

Scapus of epigyne relatively large, with median notch. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 1.4-1.9 mm
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France (Corsica), Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Malta?
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 2006a)

species

male Pedipalp, dorso-retrolateral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

species

male Pedipalp, ventro-prolateral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

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male Embolic division, median view
(Bosmans 2006a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosmans 2006a)

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female Epigyne
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 2006a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

Distribution List
Algeria   (Bosmans, 1986; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (Bosmans, 1986; Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Bosmans, 1986; Le Peru, 2007) ||| Morocco   (Lecigne et al., 2025) ||| Tunisia   (Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Bosmans R (1986) Études sur les Linyphiidae Nord-Africaines IV. Le genre Centromerus Dahl (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Biologisch Jaarboek Dodonaea 54: 85-103 pdf

Bosmans R (2006a) Contribution to the knowledge of the Linyphiidae of the Maghreb. Part XI. Miscellaneous linyphiid genera and additions (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Linyphiinae). Bulletin & Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 141: 125-161 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

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

Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184 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
02-09-2025 Distribution update Detail
13-05-2025 Image insert
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