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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Tenuiphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996   26 species

Tenuiphantes retezaticus (Růžička, 1985)

Description
Male

Prosoma brownish yellow. Sternum black-yellow, wider than long. Chelicerae with each 3 teeth on pro- and retromargin. Legs brownish-yellow. Opisthosoma light grey without pattern. Palp: Tibia with one stout spine. Base of terminal apophysis terminates in a smaller, oval triangular plate. Basal part of embolus furnished with 4 denticles.

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

Female

Prosoma uniformly brownish-yellow. Sternum black-yellow, as long as wide. Chelicerae and legs as in male. Epigyne: scape rather widening from narrow stem. Beneath the scape stem protrude the rounded lobes of the inner part of the scape.

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

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Romania
Figures
Distribution List
Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) |||
References

Růžička V (1985) Lepthyphantes retezaticus sp. n., a new spider from the Rumanian mountains (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Věstník Československé Zoologické Společnosti v Praze 49: 234-238 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 (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
05-10-2025 Distribution update Detail