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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Trichoncyboides  Wunderlich, 2008   1 species

Trichoncyboides simoni (Lessert, 1904)

Description

Tibial apophysis with 2 unequal processes. Embolus broad, band-shaped, its end pointed and angled. Prosoma yellow-brown, male: without cephalic lobe, dorsal line elevated though. Opisthosoma grey-white.

Body length male: 1.1 mm
Body length female: 1.1 mm
Additional information

biology mostly unknown, in various habitats

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Central Europe, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria
Phenology
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Distribution List
Austria   (Thaler, 1973a) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Czechia   (Buchar & Růžička, 2002; Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France   (Caron, 2024) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Hungary   (Kovács et al., 2012) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Slovakia   (Purgat et al., 2024) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (Thaler, 1973a) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Buchar J, Růžička V (2002) Catalogue of spiders of the Czech Republic. Peres Publishers, Praha, 351 pp. pdf

Caron N (2024) Trichoncyboides simoni (Lessert, 1904) (Araneae, Linyphiidae), nouvelle espèce pour la faune de France. Revue Arachnologique (2) 10: 5-8 pdf

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin 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

Kovács P, Szinetár C, Szűts T (2012) A nyugat-magyarországi peremvidék (Győr-Moson-Sopron, Vas és Zala megyék) pókfaunája [The spider fauna of the West-Hungarian region (Győr-Moson-Sopron, Vas and Zala counties)]. A Nyme Savaria Egyetemi Központ Tudományos Közleményei XIX. Természettudományok 14: 165-229 pdf

Millidge A F (1977) The conformation of the male palpal organs of linyphiid spiders, and its application to the taxonomic and phylogenetic analysis of the family (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 1-60 pdf

Purgat P, Řezáč M, Gloríková N, Černecký J, Prince M, Gajdoš P (2024) Altella aussereri, Mimetus laevigatus, and Trichoncyboides simoni (Araneae: Dictynidae, Mimetidae, Linyphiidae), three species of spiders new for Slovakia. Check List 20: 761-770 pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Thaler K (1973a) Über wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen, III (Arachn., Aranei, Erigonidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 60: 41-60 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 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

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