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

Palliduphantes melitensis  (Bosmans, 1994)

Description
Male

Prosoma yellowish orange, fovea and margins greyish. Prosoma length: 0.86-1.0 mm. Chelicerae: promargin with 3 teeth. Legs yellowish orange. Opisthosoma dark grey.

Body length male: 1.8-2.0 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 1.00-1.02 mm. Colouration as in males, sometimes with 3 paler V-shaped spots on dorsum of opisthosoma.

Body length female: 2.3-2.5 mm
Additional information

Under stones in dry habitats.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Malta
Phenology
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"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.

Malta   (Pfliegler et al., 2017) |||
References

Bosmans R, Dandria D (1994) Some new records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Maltese Islands (central Mediterranean). Animalia 20: 23-26 pdf

Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
04-09-2015 Image insert