Troglohyphantes bornensis Isaia & Pantini, 2008
Description
Male
Prosoma yellowish, anteriorly darker. Legs yellowish. Opisthosoma whitish-grey with dark hairs. Palp: lamella characteristica consists of a simple lamellar, rounded lobe directed posteriorly and armed with two short tooth-shaped tips. Cymbium smooth, profile not rounded, ends in a retro-lateral sub-apical lobe, directed proximally. The suprategular apophysis is directed upwards, nearly orthogonally, with a sharp end.
Prosoma length: 1.2 mm, prosoma width: 1.1 mm.
Female
Colour as in male. Epigyne strongly protuberant with a short scape, wider than long, barely arched in lateral view.
Prosoma length: 1.2 mm, prosoma width: 1.1 mm.
Additional information
Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Isaia & Pantini 2008)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Isaia et al. 2011)
Lamella characteristica
(Isaia & Pantini 2008)
Paracymbium
(Isaia & Pantini 2008)
Cymbium, dorsal view
(Isaia & Pantini 2008)
Epigyne, lateral view
(Isaia & Pantini 2008)
Epigyne
(Isaia & Pantini 2008)
Epigyne, dorsal view
(Isaia & Pantini 2008)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Isaia et al. 2011)
Epigyne, lateral view
(Isaia et al. 2011)
Epigyne, dorsal view
(Mammola et al. 2018a)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Mammola et al. 2018a)
Distribution List
References
Isaia M, Lana E, Paschetta M, Pantini P, Schönhofer A L, Christian E, Badino G (2011) Aracnidi sotterranei delle Alpi Occidentali italiane (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpiones)/ Subterranean Arachnids of the Western Italian Alps (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpiones). Monografie Del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali Torino 47: 1-325 
Isaia M, Pantini P (2008) A new species of Troglohyphantes (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from the western Italian Alps. Journal of Arachnology 35: 427-431
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
Mammola S, Arnedo M A, Pantini P, Piano E, Chiappetta N, Isaia M (2018a) Ecological speciation in darkness? Spatial niche partitioning in sibling subterranean spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Troglohyphantes). Invertebrate Systematics 32: 1069-1082
Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
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