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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Scutpelecopsis  Marusik & Gnelitsa, 2009   4 species

Scutpelecopsis loricata Duma & Tanasevitch, 2011

Description
Male

Prosoma unmodified. Sternum with fine granulation. Chelicerae: promargin with 5, retromargin with 2 denticles. Legs brownish yellow, femora darker, TmI 0.31. Opisthosoma with dorsal scutum, covering whole dorsum, venter with scutum reaching from pedicel to the spinnerets.

Body length male: 1.61 mm
Female

Prosoma dark brown almost black, with fine granulation except in cephalic part. Sternum dark brown. Legs: TmI 0.30. Opisthosoma with dorsal scutum covering almost entire surface, ventral scutum as shown in fig.

Body length female: 1.94 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Bulgaria: female probably misidentified
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Romania, Bulgaria
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Bulgaria   (Dimitrov & Naumova, 2021) ||| Greece   (Kielhorn, unpubl.) ||| Romania   (Duma & Tanasevitch, 2011) |||
References

Dimitrov D, Naumova M (2021) A faunistic survey of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Sakar Mountain, Bulgaria. Arachnology 18: 689-699 pdf

Duma I, Tanasevitch A V (2011) A new Scutpelecopsis Marusik & Gnelitsa from Romania (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 118: 251-256 pdf

Kielhorn K-H (unpubl.) .

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
10-05-2026 Distribution insert Detail
09-03-2021 Image insert
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26-05-2020 Distribution update Detail
30-04-2013 Datasheet update Detail
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