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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Typhochrestus  Simon, 1884   28 species

Typhochrestus bifurcatus  Simon, 1884

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013173

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Description
Male

Prosoma yellowish-orange, triangular spot before the fovea, margin greyish, sulci darkened. Legs and sternum yellowish orange, sternum suffused with grey. Opisthosoma grey to dark grey. Palp: sharp, laterally directed median tooth on the tibia, well-developed, nearly straight embolar apophysis.

Prosoma length: 0.6 mm, prosoma width: 0.5 mm.

Female

Colour as in male. Vulva with strongly developed, narrow entrance ducts. Posteromedian plate triangular, anchoring cavity long and rounded.

Prosoma length: 0.7 mm, prosoma width: 0.5 mm.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, Morocco, Algeria
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans & Oger 2014)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans & Abrous 1990)

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male Embolus, antero-ventral view
(Bosmans & Abrous 1990)

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male Embolic division, ventral view
(Bosmans & Oger 2014)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Bosmans & Oger 2014)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Bosmans & Abrous 1990)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Bosmans & Abrous 1990)

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male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Bosmans & Abrous 1990)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosmans & Abrous 1990)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans & Abrous 1990)

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.

Algeria   (Bosmans & Abrous, 1990; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans & Abrous, 1990) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019; Bosmans & Jocqué, 1993) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Bosmans R, Abrous O (1990) The genus Typhochrestus Simon 1884 in North Africa (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae). Studies on North African Linyphiidae V. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 60: 19-37 pdf

Bosmans R, Jocqué R (1993) Five Linyphiidae new to Europe, with description of Pelecopsis pooti sp. n. (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Belgian Journal of Zoology 123: 129-134 pdf

Bosmans R, Oger P (2014) Typhochrestus pekkai sp.n., a new erigonid spider from Corsica (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 23: 107-109 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 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
23-01-2024 Distribution update Detail
12-11-2023 Distribution update Detail
03-09-2015 Image insert
05-08-2014 Image insert