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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Centromerus  Dahl, 1886   71 species

Centromerus europaeus (Simon, 1911)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009736

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Description
Male

Eyes absent.

Female

Eyes absent. Epigyne distinct.

Additional information

Cave dweller.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: "Identifications from Portugal, Spain and Algeria are not reliable" (Bosmans et al. 2010), therefore deleted; all records from the Balkans are misidentified (Komnenov 2020a)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Simon 1929)

species

female Epigyne
(Simon 1929)

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.

Croatia  Removed (Fage, 1931; Komnenov, 2020a) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Montenegro  Removed (Naumova et al., 2016a; Komnenov, 2020a) |||
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

Fage L (1931) Araneae, 5e série, précédée d'un essai sur l'évolution souterraine et son déterminisme. In Biospeologica, LV. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 71: 99-291 pdf

Komnenov M (2020a) Subterranean spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Montenegro. The Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, Proceedings of the Section of Natural Sciences 23: 119-169 pdf

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

Naumova M V, Lazarov S, Petrov B, Deltshev C (2016a) New faunistic data on the cave-dwelling spiders in the Balkan Peninsula (Araneae). Ecologia Montenegrina 7: 425-438 pdf

Simon E (1929) Les arachnides de France 6 (3). Paris (Roret): 533-772 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
03-11-2020 Distribution update Detail
18-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
18-06-2020 Datasheet update Detail
08-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
04-05-2019 Image insert
12-11-2016 Distribution update Detail