Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Typhochrestus  Simon, 1884   28 species

Typhochrestus chiosensis Wunderlich, 1995

Description
Male

Embolus circular. Palpal tibia with 2 apophyses. Prosoma light brown, elevated anteriorly in males. Legs yellow-brown. TmI at 0.35-0.4. Opisthosoma medium grey.

Body length male: 1.2 mm
Female

Epigyne with broad groove. Margin of the prosoma somewhat darkened. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 1.2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece, Turkey
Phenology
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Distribution List
Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a; Tanasevitch, 2011a) |||
References

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Tanasevitch A V (2011a) On linyphiid spiders from the eastern and central Mediterranean kept at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 118: 49-91 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

Wunderlich J (1995c) Beschreibung bisher unbekannter Arten der Baldachinspinnen aus der östlichen Mediterraneis (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 4: 655-686 pdf

Updates
28-11-2022 Distribution update Detail