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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Plesiophantes  Heimer, 1981   3 species

Plesiophantes globularis (Tanasevitch, 2011)

Description
Male

Male unknown.

Female

Prosoma pale yellow, with broad grey margin, prosoma length: 1.08 mm, prosoma width: 0.80 mm. Legs yellow, distal parts of segments darker.

Body length female: 2.48 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Turkey
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

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

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 (2025b) Notes on the spider genus Plesiophantes Heimer, 1981, with the first description of the female of P. tanasevitchi Wunderlich, 2011 (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Invertebrate Zoology 22: 718-726 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
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24-09-2013 Datasheet update Detail
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