Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Trichoncus  Simon, 1884   21 species

Trichoncus hackmani Millidge, 1955

Description
Male

Prosoma orange-brown to dark brown. Male: clypeus protruding. Legs brown to yellow-brown, tibia. Tibia I and II brownish or with black tinge. Opisthosoma black.

Body length male: 1.8-2.1 mm
Female

Epigyne with semicircular posterior margin. Length of epigynal plate smaller than two times its width. Vulva: receptaculum thick-walled. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 1.8-2.4 mm
Additional information

Please note that the vulva shown in Wiehle, 1960a: 319, f. 583 does probably not belong to T. hackmani (Wunderlich, 2011c: 305; Løvbrekke, pers. comm.) and therefore has been removed.

 

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe, Turkey
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Austria   (Malicky, 1972b) ||| Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Denmark   (Scharff & Gudik-Sørensen, 2006) ||| Estonia   (Vilbaste, 1987) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Tanasevitch, 2019b) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Greece   (Van Keer et al., 2010) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Netherlands   (van Helsdingen, 2025a) ||| North Macedonia   (Stefanovska et al., 2008) ||| Norway   (Løvbrekke, unpubl.) ||| Poland  Removed (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Russia, Central   (Esyunin et al., 2020a) ||| Serbia   (Ćurčić et al., 2007; Grbić et al., 2015) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi et al., 2014) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Sancak et al., 2020; Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova et al., 2017) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

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Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Malicky H (1972b) Vergleichende Barberfallenuntersuchungen auf den Apetloner Hutweiden und im Wiener Neustädter Steinfeld: Spinnen (Araneae). Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten aus dem Burgenland 48: 109-123 pdf

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Stefanovska D, Naumova M, Prelik D, Deltshev C, Lazarov S (2008) Spiders from the Skopje region: a faunistic and zoogeographical analysis. Historia Naturalis Bulgarica 19: 35-49 pdf

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