Improphantes improbulus (Simon, 1929)
Description
Male palp with tapering lamella in distal third, pointed distally. Epigyne with strongly developed epigynal plates, enclosing scapus collar-like, therefore also visible from ventral, posterior part of scapus almost 4 times as wide as long. Prosoma yellow-brown, with or without dorsal spot. Legs clay-yellow. Opisthosoma grey-white to black.
Body length male: 2-2.3 mmBody length female: 2.1-2.7 mm
Additional information
in litter layer and small caves
Troglophile species (Mammola et al. 2018)
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Miller & Svaton 1978)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Thaler 1986c)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Thaler 1986c)
Paracymbium
(Thaler 1986c)
Epigyne
(Heimer 1978)
Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Epigyne
(Miller & Svaton 1978)
Epigyne, lateral view
(Miller & Svaton 1978)
Epigyne, antero-ventral view
(Thaler 1986c)
Epigyne/vulva, aboral view
(Thaler 1986c)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Thaler 1986c)
Vulva
(Miller & Svaton 1978)
References
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Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144
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Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin 
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Thaler K (1986c) Vier bemerkenswerte Leptyphantes-Arten aus dem Mittelmeergebiet und aus Vorderasien (Arachnida: Aranei, Linyphiidae). Sber öst Akad Wiss (I) 194: 311-325
World Spider Catalog (2018) World Spider Catalog, version 19.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (15.07.2018) doi: 10.24436/2