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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Lepthyphantes  Menge, 1866   43 species

Lepthyphantes minutus  (Blackwall, 1833)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011245

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Description

Male palp with serrated lamella. Patella with robust bristles, on a pedestal. Epigyne with scapus, weakly indented posteriorly. Prosoma brown, with dark margin. Legs brown, mostly annulated. Opisthosoma whitish with silver and black spots.

Body length male: 3.0-4.2 mm
Body length female: 4.6-6 mm
Additional information

mainly in coniferous forests

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2019): Europe
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1987)

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male Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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male Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Palpal patella, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

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female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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female Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Tibia I, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Tibia I, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Tibia IV, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Metatarsus I, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Opisthosoma, lateral view
(Palmgren 1975)

References

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

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

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

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British Spiders 2. Ray Soc London

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Machač O, Ivinskis P, Rimšaitė J (2016) Several new for the Lithuanian fauna species of spiders (Araneae). Naujos ir retos Lietuvos vabzdžių rūšys 28: 121-126 pdf

Palmgren P (1975) Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens VI. Fauna Fenn 28: 1-102

Pantini P, Isaia M (2018) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version June 2018). online at http://www.museoscienzebergamo.it/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=96&Itemid=94 pdf

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

Trotta A (2011) Second contribution to the knowledge of the spiders of Sardinia (Arachnida, Araneae). Conservazione Habitat Invertebrati 5: 137-161 pdf

World Spider Catalog (2019) World Spider Catalog, version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.01.2019) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates
22-02-2017 Distribution update Old value
15-01-2015 Image insert
26-11-2013 Image insert