Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Incestophantes  Tanasevitch, 1992   10 species

Incestophantes kotulai (Kulczyński, 1905)

Description
Male

Pedipalp: Teeth on terminal branch of paracymbium equal in length and parallel.

Body length male: 2.2-3.0 mm
Female

Epigyne: Margin of visible scapus indented, longer than wide. Prosoma yellow-brown, with blackish median and lateral longitudinal bands. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma dark grey, with white spots.

Body length female: 2.2-3.0 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe (Alps)
Figures
Distribution List
Austria   (Thaler et al., 1994) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990; Thaler et al., 1994) |||
References

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

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

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
10-01-2022 Distribution update Detail
26-03-2015 Image insert