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 mmFemale
Prosoma length: 0.96 mm, prosoma width: 0.77 mm.
Body length female: 2.5 mmAdditional information
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Thaler 1986b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978b)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978b)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wiehle 1964b)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Wiehle 1964b)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Wiehle 1964b)
Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Brignoli 1980a)
Bulbus, prolateral view
(Brignoli 1980a)
Bulbus
(Wiehle 1964b)
Embolus, dorsal view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978b)
Embolic division
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978b)
Median apophysis
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978b)
Lamella characteristica
(Thaler 1986b)
Lamella characteristica
(Brignoli 1980a)
Lamella characteristica, lateral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978b)
Lamella characteristica, proximal view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978b)
Lamella characteristica
(Wiehle 1964b)
Paracymbium
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978b)
Eyes, dorsal view
(Wiehle 1964b)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Thaler 1986b)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Brignoli 1971c)
Epigyne, lateral view
(Brignoli 1971c)
Epigyne/vulva
(Brignoli 1980a)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978b)
Epigyne, lateral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978b)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978b)
Epigyne, expanded, ventral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978b)
Epigyne, expanded, lateral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978b)
Eyes, dorsal view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978b)
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.
References
Brignoli P M (1971c) Contributo alla conoscenza dei ragni cavernicoli della Jugoslavia. Fragmenta Entomologica 7: 103-119 
Brignoli P M (1980a) Secondo contributo alla conoscenza dei ragni cavernicoli della Jugoslavia (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 87: 183-192
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
Komposch C, Steinberger K-H (1999) Rote Liste der Spinnen Kärntens (Arachnida: Araneae). Naturschutz in Kärnten 15: 567-616
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
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
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
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
Thaler K (1986b) Über einige Funde von Troglohyphantes-Arten in Kärnten (Österreich) (Arachnida, Aranei: Linyphiidae). Carinthia II 176/96: 287-302
Wiehle H (1964b) Spinnen aus Slovenien, II. Senckenbergiana Biologica 45: 641-652
WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2