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 mmBody 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
Figures
Pedipalp
(Thaler 1982a)
Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Lamella characteristica
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Epigyne
(Thaler 1982a)
Epigyne, aboral view
(Thaler 1982a)
Distribution List
References
Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin 
Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12
Thaler K (1982a) Weitere wenig bekannte Lepthyphantes-Arten der Alpen (Arachnida: Aranei, Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 89: 395-417
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2