Oedothorax paludigena Simon, 1926
Description
Prosoma brown, fovea and striae blackish. Sternum brown suffused with varying amounts of black, broadly truncated posteriorly. Legs brown to orange-brown, patellae and distal part of tibiae and metatarsi paler. Tibia I-II with 2 dorsal spines, tibia III-IV with 1 dorsal spine. TmI at 0.65. Opisthosoma greyish black with paler longitudinal stripe (sometimes absent in males)
Body length male: 1.7-2.5 mmBody length female: 2.5-3.0 mm
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Millidge 1975c)
Pedipalp
(Millidge 1975c)
Pedipalp
(Millidge 1975c)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Pantini & Mazzoleni 2018)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pantini & Mazzoleni 2018)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Türkeş 2025a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Türkeş 2025a)
Embolic division, lateral view
(Millidge 1975c)
Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Millidge 1975c)
Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Pantini & Mazzoleni 2018)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Millidge 1975c)
Epigyne
(Millidge 1975c)
Epigyne
(Millidge 1975c)
Epigyne
(Pantini & Mazzoleni 2018)
Vulva
(Millidge 1975c)
Vulva
(Pantini & Mazzoleni 2018)
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.
References
Bosmans R, Colombo M (2015) New species of spiders from Sardinia (Araneae), with ecological notes on Lipocrea epeiroides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (Araneae: Araneidae). Arachnology 16: 319-332 
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
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
Kůrka A, Naumova M, Indzhov S, Deltshev C (2020) New faunistic and taxonomic data on the spider fauna of Albania (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 8-21
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Lozano J A (2017) Colección del orden Araneae del Departamento de Biología de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) (España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 30: 162-164
Millidge A F (1975c) Some new or little-known erigonid spiders from southern Europe. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 3: 120-125
Pantini P, Mazzoleni F (2018) I ragni de Calabria (Arachnida Araneae). Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "E. Caffi", Bergamo 31: 11-69
Tanasevitch A V (2011a) On linyphiid spiders from the eastern and central Mediterranean kept at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 118: 49-91
Türkeş T (2025a) New record of Oedothorax paludigena Simon, 1926 (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from Türkiye. Serket 21: 90-92
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2