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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Incestophantes  Tanasevitch, 1992   10 species

Incestophantes frigidus (Simon, 1884)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010917

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Description

Male palp with lamella ending in 2 long tips distally. Epigyne with semicircular bullous lateral structure. Prosoma yellow-brown, with a blackish median and lateral longitudinal band. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma dark grey, whitish spotted.

Body length male: 2.2-3 mm
Body length female: 2.2-3.2 mm
Additional information

2000-2900 m

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Macedonia: Nikolić & Polenec (1971) only with "?" and not confirmed later, therefore deleted
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

species

male Pedipalp
(Thaler et al. 1994)

species

male Lamella characteristica
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

species

female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Thaler et al. 1994)

species

female Epigyne/vulva, aboral view
(Thaler et al. 1994)

Distribution List
France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 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

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Nikolić F, Polenec A (1981) Catalogus Faunae Jugoslaviae. III/4. Aranea. Cons. Acad. Scient. Publ. Soc. Foed. Jug. 135 pp. pdf

Thaler K, Helsdingen P J van, Deltshev C (1994) Vikariante Verbreitung im Artenkomplex von Lepthyphantes annulatus in Europa und ihre Deutung (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 232: 111-127 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
29-09-2025 Distribution update Detail
29-06-2018 Distribution update Detail
26-03-2015 Image insert