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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Erigonoplus  Simon, 1884   18 species

Erigonoplus simplex Millidge, 1979

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010560

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Description

Female unknown. Prosoma chestnut-brown, fovea and striae black. Sternum brown, reticulated with black. Legs yellow, long and thin. TmI at 0.3. Femur and tibia I ventrally with stout bristles. Opisthosoma black, with 4 reddish impressed dots, posteriorly with paler chevrons

Body length male: 2.45 mm
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Millidge 1979)

species

male Pedipalp
(Millidge 1979)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2013)

species

male Pedipalp, ventro-lateral view
(Hollá et al. 2016)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Millidge 1979)

species

male Prosoma, lateral view
(Millidge 1979)

species

female Epigyne
(van Helsdingen et al. 2018)

Distribution List
Albania   (Kůrka et al., 2020) ||| Bulgaria   (Hollá et al., 2016) ||| France  Removed (Hollá et al., 2016; Lecigne et al., 2022) ||| Greece   (Hollá et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025; Hollá et al., 2016) |||
References

Helsdingen P J van, IJland S, Komnenov M (2018) Inventory of the spiders (Araneae) of the border region of northern Greece with Albania and FYR Macedonia. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 37: 5-23 pdf

Hollá K, Šestáková A, Holecová M, Šebestová M (2016) On the new record of the sheet-web spider Erigonoplus foveatus comb. nov. from Slovakia, with comments on Erigonoplus simplex (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 80-84 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

Kůrka A, Naumova M, Indzhov S, Deltshev C (2020) New faunistic and taxonomic data on the spider fauna of Albania (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 8-21 pdf

Lecigne S (2013) Contribution à l’inventaire aranéologique de Corfou (Grèce) (Arachnida, Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28: 177-191 pdf

Lecigne S, Courtial C, Danflous S, Déjean S, Guerbaa K, Jacquet C, Montagne D, Montardi Y, Villepoux O (2022) De araneis Galliae IV, actualisation du référentiel des araignées de France - troisième note. Révision du statut de certaines espèces de la faune de France. Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 6: 3-38 pdf

Millidge A F (1979) Some erigonine spiders from southern Europe. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 316-328 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
21-01-2022 Distribution update Detail
29-04-2020 Distribution update Detail
29-04-2020 Distribution insert Detail
17-03-2018 Image insert
13-10-2017 Datasheet update Detail
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15-01-2017 Distribution update Detail
26-01-2014 Distribution update Detail
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