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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Canariphantes  Wunderlich, 1992   9 species

Canariphantes ritae (Bosmans, 1985)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011284

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Description
Male

Prosoma pale yellow, eyes surrounded with black. Prosoma length: 0.64 mm. Chelicerae pale yellow, promargin with 3 teeth, retromargin with 5 smaller teeth. Sternum grey-brownish. Legs pale yellow. Opisthosoma dark grey, dorsum with some lighter spots in posterior half.

Body length male: 1.36 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 0.68 mm. Colouration as in males, except spots on dorsum of opisthosoma more distinct.

Body length female: 1.7 mm
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 1985a)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Bosmans 1985a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Embolic division, ventral view
(Bosmans 1985a)

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male Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Habitus, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosmans 1985a)

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female Epigyne, dorsal view
(Bosmans 1985a)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Bosmans 1985a)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Breitling 2020)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 1985a)

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, 2006b; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans, 2006b; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019; Bosmans & Jocqué, 1993) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, 2006b; Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

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

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Bosmans R (1985a) Les genres Troglohyphantes Joseph et Lepthyphantes Menge en Afrique du Nord (Araneae, Linyphiidae): Etudes sur les Linyphiidae nord-africaines, III. Revue Arachnologique 6: 135-178 pdf

Bosmans R (2006b) Contribution to the knowledge of the Linyphiidae of the Maghreb. Part X. New data on Lepthyphantes Menge (sensu lato) species (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Belgian Journal of Zoology 136: 173-191 pdf

Bosmans R, Jocqué R (1993) Five Linyphiidae new to Europe, with description of Pelecopsis pooti sp. n. (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Belgian Journal of Zoology 123: 129-134 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

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
31-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
28-11-2022 Distribution update Detail
30-04-2020 Image insert
09-08-2018 Image insert
03-09-2015 Image insert