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

Palliduphantes angustiformis (Simon, 1884)

Description
Male

Pedipalp: lamella characteristica elongated, bifurcate at the top.

Female

Epigyne with relatively wide scapus, about 3 times as long as wide.

Body length female: 2.5 mm
Additional information

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France (incl. Corsica), Italy (incl. Sardinia)
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (Déjean, 2015c) ||| France / Corsica   (Bosmans & Colombo, 2015; Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025; Ballarin & Pantini, 2022a) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Ballarin F, Pantini P (2022a) A synthesis of the genus Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 2001 in Italy, with a description of two new species (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Micronetinae). Arachnology 19: 302-315 pdf

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

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 pdf

Brignoli P M (1971d) Note su ragni cavernicoli italiani (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 7: 121-229 pdf

Déjean S (2015c) Contribution à l'inventaire des araignées (Arachnida, Araneae) et opilions (Arachnida, Opiliones) de l'île de Porquerolles (Var, Provence, France). Scientific Reports of Port-Cros national Park 29: 75-102 pdf

Iorio É, Déjean S, Hénon N, Danflous S, Edo M, Zimmermann C (2024) Premières observations d’Altella hungarica Loksa, 1981 en France (Araneae, Dictynidae) et autres araignées intéressantes de la zone d’adhésion du Parc national de Port-Cros (Var). Revue Arachnologique (2) 11: 9-20 pdf

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

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 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 (1995a) Zur Kenntnis der Endemiten, zur Evolution und zur Biogeographie der Spinnen Korsikas und Sardiniens, mit Neubeschreibungen (Arachnida: Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 4: 353-383 pdf

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