Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Tenuiphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996   25 species

Tenuiphantes aequalis  (Tanasevitch, 1987)

Description
Male

Prosoma brown, prosoma length: 0.95 mm, prosoma width: 0.85 mm. Sternum blackish brown. Chelicerae: promargin with 3 teeth. Legs pale brown, TmI 0.19. Opisthosoma dorsally pale, with grey transverse stripes.

Body length male: 2.15 mm
Female

Prosoma brown, prosoma length: 1.00 mm, prosoma width: 0.85 mm. Sternum blackish brown. Chelicerae: promargin with 3 teeth. Legs pale brown, TmI 0.22. Opisthosoma as in males.

Body length female: 2.60 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2023): Turkey, Caucasus (Russia, Armenia)
Phenology
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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) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2022) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2022) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2022 [last updated 24 August 2022], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

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 (1987a) The linyphiid spiders of the Caucasus, USSR (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 67: 297-383 pdf

WSC (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (14.02.2023) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
06-07-2019 Distribution update Detail
29-10-2013 Datasheet update Detail
29-10-2013 Image insert