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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Incestophantes  Tanasevitch, 1992   10 species

Incestophantes kochiellus (Strand, 1900)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010921

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Description

Male palp with lamella on embolic division. Epigyne broad, with tubercular corpus on both sides of scapus. Prosoma brownish, with marginal line and median spot. Legs brownish. Femur and tibia annulated. Opisthosoma with cardiac mark, 4 pairs of median spots and dark transverse lines anterior of spinnerets.

Body length male: 2.9 mm
Body length female: 2.7 mm
Additional information

species of boreal coniferous forests

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia (Europe to East Siberia/Far East), China
Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Thaler et al. 1994)

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male Pedipalp
(Thaler et al. 1994)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Embolic division
(Thaler et al. 1994)

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male Lamella characteristica
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Cymbium, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, aboral view
(Thaler et al. 1994)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Thaler et al. 1994)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Thaler et al. 1994)

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female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Prosoma, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Leg I, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Opisthosoma, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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Opisthosoma, lateral view
(Palmgren 1975)

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.

Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Northern   (Koponen et al., 1998) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 pdf

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp. pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Koponen S, Marusik Y M, Tanasevitch A V (1998) New data on the spider fauna of the Polar Urals (Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 6: 109-119 pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Palmgren P (1975) Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens VI. Linyphiidae 1 (Die Linyphiinae und Linyphiinae-ähnlichen Micryphantinae). Fauna Fennica 28: 1-102 pdf

Thaler K, Helsdingen P J van, Deltshev C (1994) Vikariante Verbreitung im Artenkomplex von Lepthyphantes annulatus in Europa und ihre Deutung (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 232: 111-127 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
18-07-2025 Distribution update Detail
09-01-2024 Image insert
29-10-2022 Gallery image insert
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