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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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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.

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 (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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01-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
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25-09-2014 Image insert