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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Lepthyphantes  Menge, 1866   58 species

Lepthyphantes encaustus (Becker, 1879)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011153

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Description
Male

Male unknown.

Female

Prosoma reddish yellow, margin with fine black line, radial stripes indistinct. Prosoma length: 1 mm. Legs light yellow. Opisthosoma reddish brown, lighter than prosoma, with small whitish spots.

Body length female: 3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: "Moldavie" from 1879/1881 is situated in today's Romania
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Romania
Figures
species

female Epigyne/vulva
(Becker 1881)

species

female Eyes, frontal view
(Becker 1881)

species

female Habitus, dorsal view
(Becker 1881)

Distribution List
Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999; Becker, 1881) |||
References

Becker L (1881) Présentation de deux planches d'arachnides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 25(C.R.): 44-47 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

Updates
21-03-2023 Distribution update Detail
12-02-2015 Image insert