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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Lessertinella  Denis, 1947   2 species

Lessertinella kulczynskii (Lessert, 1909)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011345

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Description

Prosoma yellow-brownish, with blackish pattern. Legs yellowish. Opisthosoma blackish.

Body length male: 1.4-1.7 mm
Body length female: 1.7 mm
Additional information

Ground living at humid places and banks of streams

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria), Slovakia, Romania
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Weiss 1979)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Weiss 1979)

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male Pedipalp
(Thaler 1972a)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral-apical view
(Nae 2023)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Nae 2023)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Nae 2023)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Nae 2023)

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female Epigyne
(Weiss 1979)

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female Vulva
(Thaler 1972a)

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female Vulva
(Thaler 1972a)

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Prosoma, lateral view
(Thaler 1972a)

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.

Austria   (Thaler, 1999b) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Romania   (Nae, 2023) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| 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

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

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

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

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

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

Nae A (2023) First record for Zodarion morosum (Araneae, Zodariidae), Lessertinella kulczynskii (Araneae, Linyphiidae) and reconfirmation of Palliduphantes milleri (Araneae, Linyphiidae) in the Romanian fauna. Travaux de l’Institut de Spéologie “Émile Racovitza” 62: 55-66 pdf

Thaler K (1972a) Über einige wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen, II (Arachn., Araneae, Erigonidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 59: 29-50 pdf

Thaler K (1999b) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 6. Linyphiidae 2: Erigoninae (sensu Wiehle) (Arachnida: Araneida). Veröffentlichungen des Tiroler Landesmuseums Ferdinandeum 79: 215-264 pdf

Weiss I (1979) Lessertinella carpatica sp. n. (Arachnida, Araneae, Erigonidae). Reichenbachia 17: 325-330 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
09-01-2024 Image insert
09-01-2024 Distribution update Detail
09-01-2024 Distribution insert Detail