Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Entelecara  Simon, 1884   16 species

Entelecara truncatifrons  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875)

Description
Male

Prosoma yellowish orange, striae grey, cephalic part bright yellow.  Prosoma length: 0.84-0.88 mm, prosoma width: 0.64-0.68 mm. Legs yellowish orange, femora reddish, tibiae somewhat darkened. Opisthosoma dull black, anterior part suffused with yellow to dark grey.

Body length male: 1.6-1.9 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 0.60-0.68 mm, Prosoma width: 0.46-0.52 mm. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 1.5-2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain (Balearic Is.), France (incl. Corsica), Algeria
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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.

Algeria   (Bosmans, 2007; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Febrer J B (2020) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). 3: nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 36: 69-78 pdf

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 (2007) Contribution to the knowledge of the Linyphiidae of the Maghreb. Part XII. Miscellaneous erigonine genera and additional records (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae). Bulletin & Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 143: 117-163 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

Millidge A F (1977) The conformation of the male palpal organs of linyphiid spiders, and its application to the taxonomic and phylogenetic analysis of the family (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 1-60 pdf

Simon E (1884a) Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, deuxième et troisième partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 180-885, pl. 26-27 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Wunderlich J (2011a) Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Heutige und fossile Spinnen. Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640 pdf

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