Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Troglohyphantes  Joseph, 1882   133 species

Troglohyphantes excavatus  Fage, 1919

Description
Male

Body colouration variable, usually pale reddish brown, ventral side mostly strongly pigmented. Prosoma length: 1.00 mm, prosoma width: 0.97 mm.

Body length male: 2.3 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 0.96 mm, prosoma width: 0.77 mm.

Body length female: 2.5 mm
Additional information

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia
Phenology
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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.

Austria   (no references) ||| Croatia   (Mammola et al., 2018b) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) |||
References

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

Deeleman-Reinhold C L (1978b) Revision of the cave-dwelling and related spiders of the genus Troglohyphantes Joseph (Linyphiidae), with special reference to the yugoslav species. Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umetnosti, Razred za Prirodoslovne Vede, Classis IV, Historia Naturalis (Prirod. Vede) 23: 1-220 pdf

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

Mammola S, Cardoso P, Ribera C, Pavlek M, Isaia M (2018b) A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe. Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 56: 301-316 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

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Thaler K (1986b) Über einige Funde von Troglohyphantes-Arten in Kärnten (Österreich) (Arachnida, Aranei: Linyphiidae). Carinthia II 176/96: 287-302 pdf

Wiehle H (1964b) Spinnen aus Slovenien, II. Senckenbergiana Biologica 45: 641-652 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
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17-09-2013 Datasheet update Detail
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