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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Palliduphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 2001   66 species

Palliduphantes constantinescui (Georgescu, 1989)

Description
Male

Prosoma whitish, eyes completely reduced. Prosoma length: 0.725 mm. Sternum whitish. Chelicerae pale yellow, promargin with 3 teeth retromargin with 5 teeth. Legs pale yellow. Opisthosoma pale grey or whitish.

Female

Prosoma length: 0.875 mm. Eyes completely reduced. Chelicerae: promargin with 3 teeth retromargin with 5 teeth. Colouration as in males.

Additional information

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Romania
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) |||
References

Georgescu M (1989) Sur trois taxa nouveaux d'aranéides troglobies de Dobrogea (Roumanie). Miscellanea Speologica Romanica 1: 85-102 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

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 (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
05-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
03-09-2015 Image insert