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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Mughiphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1999   28 species

Mughiphantes handschini  (Schenkel, 1919)

Description

Male palp with 2 parallel tips on end of lamella. Paracymbium complex, ventrally strongly protruding, transverse branch bar-shaped, terminal branch tongue-shaped. Epigyne with visible part of scapus angular, at least two times wider than long. Prosoma brownish to blackish. Legs yellowish-brown. Opisthosoma blackish with bright pattern.

Body length male: 2.5-3 mm
Body length female: 2.5-3 mm
Additional information

under stones in grass heathland and lower nival zone, 1900-2900 m

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Alps (France, Switzerland, Italy)
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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.

France   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Switzerland   (no references) |||
References

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Thaler K (1982a) Weitere wenig bekannte Lepthyphantes-Arten der Alpen (Arachnida: Aranei, Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 89: 395-417 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
18-06-2020 Distribution update Detail