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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Troglohyphantes  Joseph, 1882   134 species

Troglohyphantes sordellii (Pavesi, 1875)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013115

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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
Figures
species

male Lamella characteristica
(Fage 1933b)

species

male Cymbium, dorsal view
(Pesarini 2001b)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Brignoli 1971d)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Brignoli 1971d)

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.

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
29-12-2018 Image insert
01-10-2013 Image insert
21-05-2013 Image insert