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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Mughiphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1999   28 species

Mughiphantes pulcheroides (Wunderlich, 1985)

Description
Male

Prosoma medium brown. Sternum dark brown. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on pro- and 3-4 on retromargin. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma long-oval, with 3 longitudinal rows of grey spots dorsally, numerous yellow and white spots. Palp: patella short with long dorsal bristle. Tibia longer than wide, with only short dorsal bristle. Cymbium with ridge-like projection dorsally-basally. Lamella characteristic slightly sclerotized.

Prosoma length: 1.1 mm, prosoma width: 1.0 mm.

Body length male: 2.4-2.5 mm
Female

Colour as in male. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on pro- and 3-4 on retromargin. Opisthosoma oviform. Epigyne: slightly sclerotized, slightly protruding, posterior rim with deep incision. Vulva as in M. pulcher.

Prosoma length: 1.0 mm, prosoma width: 0.9 mm.

Body length female: 2.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
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Distribution List
Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
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

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

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

Wunderlich J (1985a) Lepthyphantes pulcheroides n. sp. aus Nord-Italien (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 65: 321-323 pdf

Updates
03-10-2025 Distribution update Detail