Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Tapinocyba  Simon, 1884   18 species

Tapinocyba mitis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882)

Description
Male

Tibial apophysis broad, ending in 2 small tips.
Prosoma orange-brown. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma light grey to grey.

Body length male: 1.5 mm
Female

Epigyne with ± roundish sclerotised surrounding area. 

Body length female: 1.5 mm
Additional information

In open and damp places. Contents probably more than one species.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Albania: van Helsdingen & IJland (2015: 29): sub 'cf.'
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, France, Britain, Denmark, Latvia, Albania, Bulgaria, Russia (Europe)
Phenology
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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   (van Helsdingen & IJland, 2015; Blick, 2018) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018; Popov et al., 2000) ||| Denmark   (Hansen et al., 2015) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Latvia   (Cera, 2018) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin et al., 2011) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

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) pdf

Blick T (2018) A small collection of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the River Vjosa, Albania – with an updated spider checklist of Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 213-232 pdf

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

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

Denis J (1948a) Notes sur les érigonides. VII. Remarques sur le genre Araeoncus Simon et quelques genres voisins. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 53: 19-32 pdf

Esyunin S L, Polyanin A B, Vlasov P I, Shulaeva E A (2011) [Spider fauna of “Predural’e” reserve (Perm Area): 40 years of researches]. Bulletin of Perm University, Biology 2011(3-4): 16-23 pdf

Hansen M D D, Olsen K, Jensen T S (2015) Nye arter i Danmark. Terrestriske arthropoder og vertebrater [New species in Denmark. Terrestrial arthropods and vertebrates]. Naturhistorisk Museum, Aarhus, 94 pp. pdf

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

Helsdingen P J van, IJland S (2015) A quick scan of the spider fauna in the surroundings of Përmet, Albania (Arachnida, Araneae) - preliminary report. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 35: 15-33 pdf

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

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

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

Popov V, Deltshev C, Blagoev G, Krusteva I, Deltshev D (2000) Epigeobiont animal assemblages from two landscapes of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast: Relationship to habitat type, assemblage structure and biodiversity. II. Spiders (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 52: 51-87 pdf

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