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Cybaeidae  Banks, 1892 / Cybaeus  L. Koch, 1868   10 species

Cybaeus minor Chyzer, 1897

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021389

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Description

Prosoma yellow-brown with blackish dotted reticulate structure. Eye fields blackish margined. Opisthosoma middle grey with 4-8 light pairs of spots, forming chevrons posteriorly.

Body length male: 5-6 mm
Body length female: 5-6 mm
Additional information

In beech, mixed and spruce forests, in the Alps and Carpathians, 800-1700 m a.s.l.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Maurer 1992)

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male Pedipalp
(Maurer 1992)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Brignoli 1978a)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Brignoli 1978a)

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male Patellar apophysis
(Loksa 1969)

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female Epigyne
(Maurer 1992)

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female Epigynal atrium, ventral view
(Isaia & Chiarle 2015)

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female Vulva
(Maurer 1992)

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female Vulva
(Loksa 1969)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Brignoli 1978a)

Distribution List
Austria   (Komposch & Steinberger, 1999) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1978a) Ragni di Turchia V. Specie nuove o interesanti, cavernicole ed epigee, di varie famiglie (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 85: 461-541 pdf

Isaia M, Chiarle A (2015) Taxonomic notes on Cybaeus vignai Brignoli, 1977 (Araneae, Cybaeidae) and Dysdera cribrata Simon, 1882 (Araneae, Dysderidae) from the Italian Maritime Alps. Zoosystema 37: 45-56 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

Komposch C, Steinberger K-H (1999) Rote Liste der Spinnen Kärntens (Arachnida: Araneae). Naturschutz in Kärnten 15: 567-616 pdf

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

Loksa I (1969) Pokok I-Araneae I. Fauna Hungariae 97: 1-133 pdf

Maurer R (1992) Zur Gattung Cybaeus im Alpenraum (Araneae: Agelenidae, Cybaeinae) - Beschreibung von C. montanus n. sp. und C. intermedius n. sp.. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 99: 147-162 pdf

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 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
24-06-2025 Distribution update Detail
06-05-2015 Image insert