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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Formiphantes  Menge, 1866   1 species

Formiphantes lephthyphantiformis  (Strand, 1907)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010618

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Description

Male palp with robust terminal spine on patella. Epigyne with long and stalked visible part of scapus, slightly broadened posteriorly, distal part strongly broadened. Prosoma light yellow-brown. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma whitish.

Body length male: 2-2.4 mm
Body length female: 2-2.4 mm
Additional information

In litter layer and small caves

Troglophile species (Mammola et al. 2018)

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2021): Europe
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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male Pedipalp
(Thaler 1973b)

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male Pedipalp
(Thaler 1973b)

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male Paracymbium
(Thaler 1973b)

species

female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne/vulva
(Miller & Zitnanska 1976)

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female Epigyne
(Wiehle 1965a)

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female Vulva
(Wiehle 1965a)

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female Ocular area, frontal view
(Wiehle 1965a)

Distribution List
Austria   (no references) ||| Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Belgium   (no references) ||| Czechia   (no references) ||| Estonia   (no references) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Liechtenstein   (no references) ||| Lithuania   (no references) ||| Montenegro   (no references) ||| Poland   (no references) ||| Serbia   (Ćurčić et al., 2007) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (no references) |||
References

Ćurčić B P M, Deltshev C C, Tomić V T, Ćurčić S B (2007) Biodiversity of spiders: on some taxa new to Serbia and to science. Archives of Biological Sciences Belgrade 59: 19P-20P pdf

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

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Mammola S, Cardoso P, Ribera C, Pavlek M, Isaia M (2018b) A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe. Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 56: 301-316 pdf

Miller F, Zitnanska O (1976) Einige bemerkenswerte Spinnen aus der Slowakei. Biológia (Bratislava) 31: 81-88 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

Thaler K (1973b) Über vier wenig bekannte Leptyphantes-Arten der Alpen (Arachnida, Aranei, Linyphiidae). Archives des Sciences, Genève 25: 289-308 pdf

Wiehle H (1965a) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der deutschen Spinnenfauna IV. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 41: 11-57 pdf

WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (03.01.2021) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
21-04-2020 Distribution update Detail
28-04-2014 Distribution update Detail