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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Taranucnus  Simon, 1884   4 species

Taranucnus bihari Fage, 1931

Description
Male

Prosoma and sternum yellow to brown. Prosoma length: 1.26 mm. Sternum suffused with black. Legs yellowish brown.

Female

Prosoma olive-grey, lateral darker, with narrow black margin. Sternum blackish. Legs yellowish-olive. Opisthosoma: dorsum grey-yellowish with blackish transverse spots, sides and venter blackish.

Body length female: 3.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine
Phenology
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"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.

Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Ukraine   (Hirna, 2018) |||
References

Fage L (1931) Araneae, 5e série, précédée d'un essai sur l'évolution souterraine et son déterminisme. In Biospeologica, LV. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 71: 99-291 pdf

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.

Hirna A (2018) A new species and new records of the spider genus Taranucnus (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from the Ukrainian Carpathians. Zootaxa 4429: 372-378 pdf

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html pdf

Staręga W (1972) Nowe dla fauny Polski i rzadsze gatunki pajakow (Aranei), z opisem Lepthyphantes milleri sp. n.. Fragmenta Faunistica 18: 55-98 pdf

Weiss I (1978) Beschreibung des bisher unbekannten Männchens von Taranucnus bihari Fage, 1931 (Arachnida, Linyphiidae). Studii şi Comunicări Muzeul Brukenthal, Ştiin ţe Naturale 22: 229-232 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
21-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
06-06-2018 Image insert
06-06-2018 Distribution update Detail
03-06-2014 Image insert