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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Tarsiphantes  Strand, 1905   1 species

Tarsiphantes latithorax Strand, 1905

Description
Male

Prosoma with postocular outgrowth, with modified hairs. Palp: 2 tibial apophyses, longer than tibia, one with blunt tip and one with sharp tip.

Prosoma length: 0.8 mm, prosoma width: 0.7 mm.

Body length male: 1.5 mm
Female

Opisthosoma dark. Epigyne: "filled fovea" well separated from sides and up, partly subdivided, M-shaped.

Body length female: 2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Russia (Europe to Far North East), Alaska, Canada, Greenland
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin, 2006) ||| Russia, Northern   (Tanasevitch, 1983a; Marusik et al., 2016a; Koponen et al., 1998) |||
References

Esyunin S L (2006) Remarks on the Ural spider fauna (Arachnida: Aranei). 11. New faunistic records. Arthropoda Selecta 14: 329-337 pdf

Koponen S, Marusik Y M, Tanasevitch A V (1998) New data on the spider fauna of the Polar Urals (Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 6: 109-119 pdf

Marusik Y M, Böcher J, Koponen S (2006b) The collection of Greenland spiders (Aranei) kept in the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen. Arthropoda Selecta 15: 59-80 pdf

Marusik Y M, Koponen S, Makarova O L (2016a) A survey of spiders (Araneae) collected on the arctic island of Dolgiy (69°12′N), Barents Sea. Arachnology 17: 10-24 pdf

Tanasevitch A V (1983a) New genera and species of spiders of the family Linyphiidae from the polar Urals. Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 62: 215-221 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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