Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Kratochviliella  Miller, 1938   1 species

Kratochviliella bicapitata Miller, 1938

Description

Tibial apophysis long, bent apically. Epigyne with broad oval median plate, clearly marked off. Prosoma dark brown, male: with cephalic lobe, strongly pronounced and bent backward. Legs orange. Opisthosoma shiny black.

Body length male: 1.0 mm
Body length female: 1.0 mm
Additional information

Mainly found on bark

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Central Europe, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece
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.

Austria   (Steinberger & Thaler, 1994; Wunderlich, 1972b) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France   (Danflous & Déjean, 2015) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Greece   (van Helsdingen et al., 2018) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2017) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi & Stäubli, 2012) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Czajka M (1968) Pelecopsis pilawskii nov. sp. (Micryphantidae, Araneae). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 38: 469-474 pdf

Danflous S, Déjean S (2015) Kratochviliella bicapitata Miller, 1938 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) découverte en France. Revue Arachnologique (2) 2: 8-11 pdf

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.

Hänggi A, Stäubli A (2012) Nachträge zum „Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen“: 4. Neunachweise von 2002 bis 2011. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 59-76 pdf

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Helsdingen P J van, IJland S, Komnenov M (2018) Inventory of the spiders (Araneae) of the border region of northern Greece with Albania and FYR Macedonia. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 37: 5-23 pdf

Komnenov M (2017) New data on spider fauna (Araneae) of Shar Mountain, north-western Macedonia. Proceedings of the 5th Congress of the Ecologists of Macedonia, with international participation (Ohrid, 19th-22nd October 2016). Special issues of the Macedonian Ecological Society 13: 44-61 pdf

Miller F (1938a) Novi pavouci (Araneae) z Ceskoslovenska, I [Neue Spinnen (Araneae) aus der Čechoslovakischen Republik. I]. Entomologické Listy, Brno 1: 61-66 pdf

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Steinberger K-H, Thaler K (1994) Fallenfänge von Spinnen im Kulturland des oberösterreichischen Alpenvorlandes (Arachnidae, Araneae). Beiträge zur Naturkunde Oberösterreichs 2: 131-160 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

Wunderlich J (1972b) Zur Spinnenfauna Deutschlands, XII. Neue und seltene Arten der Linyphiidae und einige Bemerkungen zur Synonymie (Arachnida: Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 53: 291-306 pdf

Wunderlich J, Nicolai V (1984) Kratochviliella bicapitata Miller 1938, eine für das Gebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland neue Zwergspinne (Arachnida, Araneae, Linyphiidae). Hessische Faunistische Briefe 4: 53-54 pdf

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