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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Tenuiphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996   26 species

Tenuiphantes monachus (Simon, 1884)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012884

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Description

Prosoma yellow-brownish. Legs yellowish. Opisthosoma blackish.

Body length male: 2.2-2.6 mm
Body length female: 2.5-3.1 mm
Additional information

high alpine species

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: North Macedonia: doubtful
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria), North Macedonia?
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral-ventral view
(Thaler 1984c)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Thaler 1984c)

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female Epigyne
(Thaler 1984c)

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female Epigyne
(Thaler 1984c)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Schenkel 1929)

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female Epigyne, apical view
(Schenkel 1929)

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female Epigyne, apical view
(Schenkel 1929)

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female Vulva
(Thaler 1984c)

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.

Austria   (Rivalta et al., 2023; Thaler, 1984c) ||| Bulgaria  Removed (Naumova et al., 2021) ||| France   (Rivalta et al., 2023; Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Rivalta et al., 2023; Isaia et al., 2025) ||| North Macedonia   (Nikolić & Polenec, 1981; Blagoev, 2002) ||| Switzerland   (Rivalta et al., 2023; Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

Blagoev G (2002) Check list of Macedonian spiders (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 54: 9-34 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

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

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

Naumova M, Blagoev G, Deltshev D (2021) Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984: 228-257 pdf

Nikolić F, Polenec A (1981) Catalogus Faunae Jugoslaviae. III/4. Aranea. Cons. Acad. Scient. Publ. Soc. Foed. Jug. 135 pp. pdf

Rivalta V T, Isaia M, Giaccone E, Freppaz M, Gobbi M (2023) Tenuiphantes monachus (Simon, 1884) (Araneae, Linyphiidae): un raro endemismo alpino rinvenuto in Valle d’Aosta. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali 103: 21-24 pdf

Schenkel E (1929) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der schweizerischen Spinnenfauna. IV. Teil. Spinnen von Bedretto. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 36: 1-24 pdf

Thaler K (1984c) Weitere Lepthyphantes-Arten der mughi-Gruppe aus den Alpen (Arachnida: Aranei, Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 91: 913-924 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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22-06-2023 Distribution insert Detail
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16-05-2020 Image insert
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