araneae - Stemonyphantes lineatus

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Stemonyphantes lineatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012760

Description

Bulbus basally with spoon-shaped process, distal apophysis with parallel processes. Prosoma yellow-brownish, with black, non-furcated median stripe. Sternum yellow-brown, with broad, blackish margin. Chelicerae brown, with stridulatory organs in distal half. Legs yellow-brown, with distinctly dark annulations. Opisthosoma whitish, yellowish, reddish or dark grey, always with dark pattern consisting of 3 longitudinal rows of irregular spots, ventrally with large, dark spots.

Body length male: 4.0-5.0 mm
Body length female: 4.5-7.0 mm

Additional information

Frequently in forest edges, ruderal places and meadows with high plants

Character states from linyphiid key

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Central Asia, China

Phenology



Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

all the year round, mainly early year and autumn

Figures

Pedipalp
(Azheganova 1968)

Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1956)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wiehle 1956)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1987)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Seropian et al. 2023b)

Leg I, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Metatarsus I
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Vulva
(Azheganova 1968)

Vulva
(Wiehle 1956)

Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Prosoma, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Sternum
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Leg I, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Femur I, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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.

Albania (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Austria (Thaler, 1995) ||| Azerbaijan (Otto, 2022) ||| Belarus (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Belgium (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Bulgaria (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Czechia (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Denmark (Scharff & Gudik-Sørensen, 2006) ||| Estonia (Vilbaste, 1987) ||| Finland (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Georgia (Seropian et al., 2023b) ||| Germany (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Greece (Buchholz, 2013) ||| Hungary (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Ireland (Lavery, 2019) ||| Italy (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Latvia (Cera, 2018) ||| Liechtenstein (Arnold, 2001) ||| Lithuania (Biteniekytė & Rėlys, 2012) ||| Luxembourg (Hermann, 1998; Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| Netherlands (van Helsdingen, 2025a) ||| North Macedonia (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Northern Ireland (Lavery, 2019) ||| Norway (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Poland (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Portugal (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Central (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Eastern (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Kaliningrad Region (Schikora, 2014) ||| Russia, Northern (no references) ||| Russia, Southern (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Western (no references) ||| Serbia (Grbić et al., 2015) ||| Slovakia (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Sweden (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) ||| Ukraine (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) ||| United Kingdom (Lavery, 2019) |||

References

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

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

Azheganova N S (1968) Kratkii opredelitel' paukov (Aranei) lesnoi i lesostepnoi zony SSSR. Akademia Nauk SSSR, 149pp.

Biteniekytė M, Rėlys V (2012) The checklist of Lithuanian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Biologija 57: 148-158

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)

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

Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254

Buchholz S (2013) Spider records from East Macedonia and Thrace (NE Greece). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 45: 45-53

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144

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

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

Grbić G, Hänggi A, Savić D (2015) New faunistic records of spiders (Arachnida, Areneae [sic]) from the Fruška Gora mountain, northern Serbia. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 67: 479-486

Helsdingen P J van (2025a) Catalogus van de Nederlandse spinnen. Versie 2025.1. 249 pp.

Hermann E (1998) Die Spinnen (Araneae) ausgewählter Halbtrockenrasen im Osten Luxemburgs. Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes Luxembourgeois 99: 189-199

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

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

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267

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

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

Kreuels M, Staudt A, Christian S (2019) Die Spinnenfauna von Luxemburg – eine Zusammenstellung der Nachweise aus den Jahren 1906-2018 (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 121: 203-230

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

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212

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

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp.

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

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

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.

Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp.

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html

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

Scharff N, Gudik-Sørensen O (2006) Katalog over Danmarks edderkopper (Araneae). Catalogue of the spiders of Denmark (Araneae). Entomologiske Meddelelser 74: 3-71

Schikora H-B (2014) Die Webspinnen des Regenrnoorkomplexes Zehlaubruch, Kaliningrad-Region von Russland (Arachnida, Araneae). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen 47: 427-446

Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Otto S, Krammer H-J, Kachlishvili N, Datunashvili A (2023b) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297

Thaler K (1995) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 5. Linyphiidae 1: Linyphiinae (sensu Wiehle) (Arachnida: Araneida). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 82: 153-190

Vilbaste A (1987) Eesti Ämblikud (Aranei). Annoteeritud nimestik. Estonian spiders (Aranei). An annotated check list. Valgus, Tallinn. 113 pp. & 512 maps on 67 unpag. pages

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107

Wiehle H (1956) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, X. 28: Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1-337

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates

15-10-2025	Distribution update	Detail
05-12-2024	Distribution update	Detail
07-02-2024	Image insert
21-12-2023	Distribution insert	Detail
18-03-2020	Distribution insert	Detail
29-04-2014	Image insert
04-12-2013	Distribution update	Detail
03-09-2013	Image insert
12-07-2013	Distribution update	Detail