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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Tenuiphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996   26 species

Tenuiphantes contortus  (Tanasevitch, 1986)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012870

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Description
Male

Prosoma brownish yellow. Prosoma length: 1.00 mm. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on promargin. Sternum dark grey. Legs yellow-brown, TmI 0.23. Opisthosoma dorsally pale, with some darker stripes.

Body length male: 2.30 mm
Female

Colouration as in males. Legs: TmI 0.17. Prosoma length: 1.15 mm.

Body length female: 2.55 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Tanasevitch 1990)

species

male Lamella characteristica
(Tanasevitch 1990)

species

female Epigyne
(Tanasevitch 1990)

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.

Armenia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) |||
References

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Tanasevitch A V (1990) The spider family Linyphiidae in the fauna of the Caucasus (Arachnida, Aranei). In: Striganova B R (ed.), Fauna nazemnykh bespozvonochnykh Kavkaza. Moscow, Akaedemia Nauk, pp. 5-114 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf