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

Palliduphantes carusoi (Brignoli, 1979)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011120

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Description
Male

Prosoma and legs yellowish orange, sternum darker. Eyes well developed, surrounded with black.

Body length male: 1.97 mm
Female

Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 2.36 mm
Additional information

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy (Sicily)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Brignoli 1979e)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Ballarin & Pantini 2022a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ballarin & Pantini 2022a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ballarin & Pantini 2022a)

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male Bulbus
(Brignoli 1979e)

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male Bulbus
(Brignoli 1979e)

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male Paracymbium
(Brignoli 1979e)

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male Chelicera, lateral view
(Brignoli 1979e)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Brignoli 1979e)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Brignoli 1979e)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Brignoli 1979e)

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female Epigyne, dorsal view
(Ballarin & Pantini 2022a)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Ballarin & Pantini 2022a)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Ballarin & Pantini 2022a)

Distribution List
Italy / Sicily   (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

Brignoli P M (1979e) Ragni d'Italia XXXII. Specie cavernicole di Sicilia (Araneae). Animalia 5: 273-286 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

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 (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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