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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Sciastes  Bishop & Crosby, 1938   1 species

Sciastes carli (Lessert, 1907)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012531

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Description

Tibial apophysis long and slender. Prosoma brownish yellow, without modifications, dark margin, median spot and radial stripes, tinged with black like sternum and coxa. Opisthosoma blackish.

Body length male: 2.1 mm
Body length female: 2.5 mm
Additional information

Alpine species of coniferous forests, small bush and grass heathland, 1500-3000 m

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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male Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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male Pedipalp
(Thaler 1971)

species

male Tibial apophysis
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne
(Schenkel 1929)

species

female Vulva
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

species

Prosoma, lateral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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, 1999b) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 pdf

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin 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

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

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Schenkel E (1929) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der schweizerischen Spinnenfauna. IV. Teil. Spinnen von Bedretto. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 36: 1-24 pdf

Thaler K (1971) Über drei wenig bekannte hochalpine Zwergspinnen (Arach., Aranei, Erigonidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 44: 309-322 pdf

Thaler K (1999b) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 6. Linyphiidae 2: Erigoninae (sensu Wiehle) (Arachnida: Araneida). Veröffentlichungen des Tiroler Landesmuseums Ferdinandeum 79: 215-264 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
14-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
16-05-2020 Image insert