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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Tenuiphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996   26 species

Tenuiphantes jacksonoides (van Helsdingen, 1977)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012880

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Description

Male palp with parallel tips of lamella. Paracymbium with tooth on transverse branch. Prosoma grey-brown. Legs pale brown. Opisthosoma grey-white with dark pattern.

Body length male: 2.1-3.2 mm
Body length female: 2.1-3.2 mm
Additional information

mainly in subalpine grass heathland, 1300-2400 m

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Bulgaria: record doubtful (based on female only), should be verified
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Alps (Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy)
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Frick et al. 2006)

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male Paracymbium
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne
(van Helsdingen et al. 1977)

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female Chelicerae, ventral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

Distribution List
Austria   (van Helsdingen et al., 1977) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 pdf

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Frick H, Hänggi A, Kropf C, Nentwig W, Bolzern A (2006) Faunistically remarkable spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the timberline in the Swiss Central Alps (Alp Flix, Grisons). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 79: 167-187 pdf

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

Helsdingen P J van, Thaler K, Deltshev C (1977) The tenuis group of Lepthyphantes Menge (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 120: 1-54 pdf

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 pdf

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
08-10-2021 Distribution update Detail
10-12-2013 Image insert