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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Troglohyphantes  Joseph, 1882   134 species

Troglohyphantes sordellii (Pavesi, 1875)

Description
Female

Prosoma and legs reddish yellow. Opisthosoma grey-yellow. Epigyne: Posterioventrad directed hump which is distally narrowed and strongly convex, longer than wide, with 2 lateral lamellae on each side. Distal hooks thickened and protruding over posterior border of the hump.

Prosoma length: 1.0 mm.

Body length female: 3.2 mm
Additional information

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: The species is not found in Slovenia (misidentification), it is endemic in the Prealpi Lombarde (Prealpi Luganesi, Alpi and Prealpi Bergamasche, Prealpi Bresciane: Italy and Switzerland).
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Switzerland, Italy
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Distribution List
Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1971d) Note su ragni cavernicoli italiani (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 7: 121-229 pdf

Fage L (1933b) Sur un Troglohyphantes nouveau des grottes de Lombardie. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 38: 105-107 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

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

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Pesarini C (2001b) Note sui Troglophyphantes italiani, con descrizione di quattro nuove specie (Araneae Linyphiidae). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 142: 109-133 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
16-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
29-12-2018 Datasheet update Detail
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