Mecynargus minutipalpis Gnelitsa, 2011
Description
Male
Prosoma brown-yellow. Sternum grey-yellow, with delicate dark margin. Chelicerae: promargin with 5 teeth, retromargin with 2 teeth. Legs brownish yellow. Opisthosoma dark grey, unicoloured.
Body length male: 1.5 mmFemale
Prosoma yellow-grey. Sternum grey-yellow, with delicate dark margin. Chelicerae: promargin with 4 teeth, retromargin with 3 teeth. Legs orange-yellow. Opisthosoma dark grey.
Body length female: 1.87 mmAdditional information
in open and rather humid places with enough detritus, especially salt marshes with Phragmites and grass
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Gnelitsa 2011)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Gnelitsa 2011)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Gnelitsa 2011)
Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Gnelitsa 2011)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Gnelitsa 2011)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Gnelitsa 2011)
Vulva
(Gnelitsa 2011)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Esyunin & Kabdrakhimov 2023)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Gnelitsa 2011)
Stridulatory area on the book lung
(Gnelitsa 2011)
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.
References
Esyunin S L, Kabdrakhimov A A (2023) New data on the spider fauna of West Kazakhstan Region (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin of Perm University, Biology 2023: 19-30 
Gnelitsa V A (2011) Mecynargus minutipalpis sp. n. (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from Ukraine. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 61-66
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Tanasevitch A V (2013a) On synonymy of linyphiid spiders of the Russian fauna. 3 (Arachnida: Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 22: 171-187
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2