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
"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
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