Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Caracladus  Simon, 1884   3 species

Caracladus zamoniensis Frick & Muff, 2009

Description
Male

Prosoma honey brown, reticulated, with cephalic lobe. Resembles C. avicula, but more robust, neck-like prolongation of equal diameter directly below and above eye field. Tibia I proximally bent and dorsally with glabrous area on proximal half. Palp: Embolus short, broad and robust basally, thin and U-shaped distally. Prosoma length: 0.9 mm, prosoma width: 0.7 mm.

Body length male: 1.91-2.18 mm
Female

Resembles C. avicula. Epigyne: two anterior pouches formed by the ventral and dorsal plate, anterior borders highly sclerotised. Vulva without copulatory duct, simple with hook-like sclerotised pouch borders, originating anterior and mesal to the receptacula. Prosoma length: 0.9 mm, prosoma width: 0.7 mm.

Body length female: 1.62-2.00 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Switzerland, Austria
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.

Austria   (Frick & Muff, 2009) ||| France   (Frick & Muff, 2009) ||| Switzerland   (Frick & Muff, 2009) |||
References

Frick H, Muff P (2009) Revision of the genus Caracladus with the description of Caracladus zamoniensis spec. nov. (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae). Zootaxa 1982: 1-37 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
31-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
21-11-2020 Datasheet update Detail
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail