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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Troglohyphantes  Joseph, 1882   134 species

Troglohyphantes bolognai Brignoli, 1975

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013014

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Description
Male

Prosoma yellow-orange, prosoma length: 1.35 mm, prosoma width: 1.20 mm. Opisthosoma greyish.

Body length male: 2.37 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 1.0 mm, prosoma width: 0.95 mm. Prosoma uniformly yellowish, dorsally with a narrow ridge, marked with a streak. Cephalic region very slightly elevated, bristles in the ocular area, continuing backwards in 3 longitudinal rows converging at the thoracic furrow. Eyes very reduced. Chelicerae light brownish. Legs uniformly yellowish. Opisthosoma whitish to grey with dark hair.

Body length female: 2.87 mm
Additional information

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Isaia & Pantini 2010)

species

male Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Brignoli 1979h)

species

male Embolus
(Brignoli 1979h)

species

male Lamella characteristica
(Brignoli 1979h)

species

male Lamella characteristica
(Brignoli 1979h)

species

male Lamella characteristica
(Brignoli 1979h)

species

female Epigyne
(Brignoli 1975a)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Isaia & Pantini 2010)

species

female Epigyne, lateral view
(Isaia & Pantini 2010)

species

female Epigyne, lateral view
(Isaia & Pantini 2010)

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female Chelicera, posterior view
(Isaia & Pantini 2010)

Distribution List
Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1975a) Ragni d'Italia XXV. Su alcuni ragni cavernicoli dell'Italia settentrionale (Araneae). Notiziario del Circolo Speleologico Romano 20: 7-39 pdf

Brignoli P M (1979h) Ragni d'Italia XXXI. Specie cavernicole nuove o interessanti (Araneae). Quaderni del Museo di Speleologia "V. Rivera" 5(10): 1-48 pdf

Isaia M, Pantini P (2010) New data on the spider genus Troglohyphantes (Araneae, Linyphiidae) in the Italian Alps, with the description of a new species and a new synonymy. Zootaxa 2690: 1-18 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

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, 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 (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
14-05-2013 Datasheet update Detail