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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)

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

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.

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 (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
29-09-2025 Distribution update Detail
29-06-2018 Distribution update Detail
26-03-2015 Image insert