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

Palliduphantes spelaeorum  (Kulczyński, 1914)

Description
Male

Prosoma yellow-brown. Opisthosoma grey. Legs yellowish. Palp: paracymbium big with characteristic processes. Terminal apophyses narrow and serrated. Lamella strong and forked, both branches well-developed and diverging.

Prosoma length: 1.1 mm, prosoma width: 0.9 mm.

Body length male: 2.01 mm
Female

Colouration as in male.

Prosoma length: 0.9 mm, prosoma width: 0.7 mm.

Body length female: 2.19 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Balkans, Greece
Figures
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.

Bosnia and Herzegovina   (Komnenov, 2010) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Kratochvíl, 1934) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Montenegro   (no references) ||| North Macedonia   (Deltshev et al., 2013) ||| Serbia   (no references) ||| Slovenia   (no references) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Brignoli P M (1971c) Contributo alla conoscenza dei ragni cavernicoli della Jugoslavia. Fragmenta Entomologica 7: 103-119 pdf

Brignoli P M (1980a) Secondo contributo alla conoscenza dei ragni cavernicoli della Jugoslavia (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 87: 183-192 pdf

Deltshev C D (2008b) Faunistic diversity and zoogeography of cave-dwelling spiders on the Balkan Peninsula. p. 327-348. In: Makarov S E & Dimitrijevic R N (Eds): Advances in arachnology and developmental biology. Papers dedicated to Prof. Dr. Božidar Curcic. Monographs 12. 517 pp. pdf

Deltshev C, Komnenov M, Blagoev G, Georgiev T, Lazarov S, Stojkoska E, Naumova M (2013) Faunistic diversity of spiders (Araneae) in Galichitsa Mountain (FYR Macedonia). Biodiversity Data Journal 1(e977): 1-70 pdf

Komnenov M (2010) Checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uzizaž i Biospeld 5(2009): 52-69 pdf

Kratochvíl J (1934) Pregled pecinskih paukova u Jugoslaviji [Liste générale des Araignées cavernicoles en Yougoslavie]. Prirodoslovne Razprave 2: 165-226 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, 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 (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
08-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
04-02-2019 Distribution update Detail
03-09-2013 Image insert