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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Oreoneta  Kulczyński, 1894   8 species

Oreoneta montigena (L. Koch, 1872)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010820

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Description
Male

Pedipalp: tibial apophysis with flat lateral bulge, tegular apophysis with several tips. Colouration as in females.

Body length male: 3 mm
Female

Epigyne: median plate slender. Prosoma medium brown, cephalic region sometimes lighter, margin and radial stripes somewhat darker. Sternum yellow-brown, suffused with black. Chelicerae dark brown, stout, promargin with 6 and retromargin with 5 denticles. Legs long and stout, brown. Opisthosoma unicoloured.

Body length female: 3.13-3.75 mm
Additional information

high alpine species, Alps and Carpathians

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Alps (Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Slovenia), Slovakia, Bulgaria
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1963b)

species

male Part of embolus
(Wiehle 1963b)

species

female Epigyne
(Wiehle 1963b)

species

female Epigyne, aboral view
(Thaler 1983b)

species

female Vulva
(Wiehle 1963b)

Distribution List
Austria   (Thaler, 1995) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

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

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, 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 pdf

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

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

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

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

Thaler K (1983b) Über Tapinopa disjugata Simon (1884) (Arachnida: Aranei, Linyphiidae). Archives des Sciences, Genève 36: 461-468 pdf

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 pdf

Wiehle H (1963b) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der deutschen Spinnenfauna III. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 90: 227-298 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
05-10-2025 Distribution update Detail