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

Palliduphantes gladiola (Simon, 1884)

Description
Male

Prosoma and legs yellow brown, eye field strongly protruding. Opisthosoma long-oval, with some very long hairs, grey, varying, distal half often with chevron-like transversal bands. Palp: paracymbium with a long, strongly sclerotized, dorsally bent spur. Lamella characteristica small, only in distal third strongly sclerotized.

Prosoma length: 1.0 mm, prosoma width: 0.7 mm.

Body length male: 2.1 mm
Female

Colour as in male. Epigyne: protruding, with long, distally strongly widened scape.

Prosoma length: 1.0 mm, prosoma width: 0.7 mm.

Body length female: 2.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France (incl. Corsica)
Figures
Distribution List
France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy  Removed (Pantini & Isaia, 2018; Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

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

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2018) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version June 2018). 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

Wunderlich J (1980e) Linyphiidae aus Süd-Europa und Nord-Afrika (Arachn.: Araneae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 23: 319-337 pdf

Updates
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