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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Lepthyphantes  Menge, 1866   58 species

Lepthyphantes centromeroides Kulczyński, 1914

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 1.0 mm, Prosoma width: 0.95 mm. Prosoma and sternum yellow reddish. Opisthosoma brown-grey.

Body length male: 2.4 mm
Female

Colouration as in males.

Additional information

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Balkans, Romania, Ukraine
Phenology
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Distribution List
Bosnia and Herzegovina   (Komnenov, 2010) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Montenegro   (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1974; Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2017) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Serbia   (Ćurčić et al., 2003) ||| Ukraine   (Mikhailov, 2013) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Ćurčić B P M, Deltshev C C, Blagoev G A, Ćurčić S B, Tomić V T (2003) On the diversity of some spiders (Aranea: Arachnida) from Serbia. Archives of Biological Sciences Belgrade 55: 23-31 pdf

Deeleman-Reinhold C L (1974) The cave spider fauna of Montenegro (Araneae). Glasnik Republickog Zavoda za Zastitu Prirode i Prirodnjackog Muzeja Titogradu 6: 9-33 pdf

Dumitrescu M, Georgescu M (1970) Révision des représentants du genre Troglohyphantes des grottes de Roumanie. Livre du Centenaire Émile G. Racovitza 1868-1968: 313-331 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 (2010) Checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uzizaž i Biospeld 5(2009): 52-69 pdf

Komnenov M (2017) New data on spider fauna (Araneae) of Shar Mountain, north-western Macedonia. Proceedings of the 5th Congress of the Ecologists of Macedonia, with international participation (Ohrid, 19th-22nd October 2016). Special issues of the Macedonian Ecological Society 13: 44-61 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 pdf

Prokopenko E V (2019) The first record of Lepthyphantes centromeroides Kulczyński, 1914 (Aranei: Linyphiidae) from the Ukrainian Carpathians. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 15: 23-24 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 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

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