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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Tapinopa  Westring, 1851   3 species

Tapinopa gerede Saaristo, 1997

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012856

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Description
Male

Male unknown.

Female

Prosoma yellow-brown, with blackish striae, ocular area and mergins blackish. Prosoma length: 1.2 mm. Chelicerae: promargin with 2 small and 4 long and thin teeth, retromargin with 4 small teeth. Legs brown, with darker annulation. Opisthosoma: dorsum pale greyish, with small shining guanine corpuscles and three pairs of darker patches followed by dark transverse bars, venter blackish.

Body length female: 2.6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Turkey
Figures
species

female Epigyne, dorsal view
(Saaristo 1997b)

species

female Epigyne, posterior view
(Saaristo 1997b)

species

female Chelicera, frontal view
(Saaristo 1997b)

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

Saaristo M I (1997b) A new species of Tapinopa Westring from Turkey (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae: Micronetinae). Reichenbachia 32: 5-7 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

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03-09-2015 Image insert