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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Megalepthyphantes  Wunderlich, 1994   12 species

Megalepthyphantes turkeyensis Tanasevitch, Kunt & Seyyar, 2005

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039916

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Description
Male

Prosoma yellowish grey, with dark median stripe bifid anteriorly, prosoma margin darker. Prosoma length: 1.25 mm, prosoma width: 1.03 mm. Legs greyish-yellow. Opisthosoma with dorsal pattern.

Female

Female unknown.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece, Cyprus, Turkey
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Tanasevitch et al. 2005)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Seyyar et al. 2022d)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Seyyar et al. 2022d)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Seyyar et al. 2022d)

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male Embolus
(Tanasevitch et al. 2005)

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male Lamella characteristica
(Tanasevitch et al. 2005)

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male Apical part of lamella characteristica
(Tanasevitch et al. 2005)

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male Apical part of lamella characteristica
(Tanasevitch et al. 2005)

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male Paracymbium
(Tanasevitch et al. 2005)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Tanasevitch et al. 2005)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

Distribution List
Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (Tanasevitch, 2011a) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a; Seyyar et al., 2022d) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Seyyar O, Türkeş T, Demir H (2022d) New locality records of two rare linyphiids (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in Türkiye. Serket 19: 22-5 pdf

Tanasevitch A V (2011a) On linyphiid spiders from the eastern and central Mediterranean kept at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 118: 49-91 pdf

Tanasevitch A V, Kunt K B, Seyyar O (2005) A new species of the genus Megalepthyphantes Wunderlich from Turkey (Aranei: Linyphiidae: Micronetinae). Arthropoda Selecta 13: 279-280 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
20-11-2022 Image insert
19-11-2022 Distribution update Detail
27-11-2019 Image insert
07-11-2019 Distribution update Detail
24-09-2013 Datasheet update Detail
24-09-2013 Image insert