Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Piniphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996   3 species

Piniphantes cirratus (Thaler, 1986)

Description
Male

Palp: lamella characteristica sickle-shaped. Embolic process protruding. Prosoma length: 0.81 mm, prosoma width: 0.64 mm. Prosoma yellow-brownish, margins, median spot and striae blackish. Legs yellowish. Sternum and opisthosoma blackish.

Body length male: 1.8 mm
Female

Female unknown.

Additional information

Mixed forest, in scree and detritus.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France (Corsica)
Phenology
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 male  female
Figures
Distribution List
France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) |||
References

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Thaler K (1986d) Über Lepthyphantes cirratus n. sp. und die Formen der Untergruppe um L. pinicola Simon (Arachnida: Aranei, Linyphiidae). Archives des Sciences, Genève 39: 225-234 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

Updates
11-02-2014 Datasheet update Detail
11-02-2014 Image insert