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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Crosbyarachne  Charitonov, 1937   2 species

Crosbyarachne silvestris (Georgescu, 1973)

Description
Male

Prosoma and legs pale yellow. Opisthosoma white. Chelicerae with 6 teeth on pro- and 5 on retromargin. Palp: tibia with two trichobothria. Paracymbium with black, hook-shaped, slightly curved basal apophysis, which is pointing to the tibia. Prosoma length: 0.6 mm.

Female

Prosoma and legs pale yellow. Opisthosoma white. Chelicerae with 6 teeth on pro- and 5 on retromargin. Epigyne with typical sclerotized lyriform structure. Prosoma length: 0.7 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Austria, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece
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Distribution List
Austria   (Hebar, 1980) ||| Bosnia and Herzegovina   (Millidge, 1979; Kuralt et al., 2025) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Millidge, 1979) ||| Greece   (Komnenov et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Montenegro   (Millidge, 1979) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014; Deltshev et al., 2013) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Serbia   (Grbić et al., 2015) ||| Slovenia  Removed (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) |||
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

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

Georgescu M (1973a) La position systématique des genres Tapinocyba E. Simon et Aulacocyba E. Simon. La description d'une nouvelle espèce: Tapinocyba silvestris. Travaux de l’Institut de Spéologie “Émile Racovitza” 12: 127-134 pdf

Grbić G, Hänggi A, Savić D (2015) New faunistic records of spiders (Arachnida, Areneae [sic]) from the Fruška Gora mountain, northern Serbia. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 67: 479-486 pdf

Hebar K (1980) Zur Faunistik, Populationsdynamik und Produktionsbiologie der Spinnen (Araneae) des Hackelsberges im Leithagebirge (Burgenland). Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (I) 189: 83-231 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

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Komnenov M, Pitta E, Zografou K, Chatzaki M (2016) Discovering the still unexplored arachnofauna of the National Park of Dadia-Lefkimi-Soufli, NE Greece: a taxonomic review with description of new species. Zootaxa 4096: 1-66 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Kuralt Ž, Pajek Arambašič N, Kostanjšek R (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of spiders (Araneae) of the upper course of the Neretva River in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Natura Sloveniae 27: 114-122 pdf

Millidge A F (1977) The conformation of the male palpal organs of linyphiid spiders, and its application to the taxonomic and phylogenetic analysis of the family (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 1-60 pdf

Millidge A F (1979) Some erigonine spiders from southern Europe. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 316-328 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 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

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