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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Mycula  Schikora, 1994   1 species

Mycula mossakowskii Schikora, 1994

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011920

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Description
Body colour whitish grey, pale, almost colourless. Body length male: 0.82-0.95 mm
Body length female: 0.8-1.0 mm
Additional information
in sphagnum of nutrient-poor bogs, 400-800 m
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Germany, Austria, Italy
Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Schikora 1994)

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male Pedipalp
(Schikora 1994)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Schikora 1994)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Schikora 1994)

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male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Schikora 1994)

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female Epigyne
(Schikora 1994)

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female Vulva
(Schikora 1994)

Distribution List
Austria   (Thaler, 2000) ||| Germany   (Schikora, 1994) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025; Schikora, 1994) |||
References

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

Schikora H-B (1994) Mycula mossakowskii, a new genus and species of erigonine spider from ombrotrophic bogs in southern Germany (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9: 274-276 pdf

Thaler K (2000) Fragmenta faunistica Tirolensia - XIII (Arachnida: Araneae; Myriapoda: Diplopoda; Insecta, Diptera: Mycetophiloidea, Psychodidae, Trichoceridae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 87: 243-256 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
02-03-2021 Distribution update Detail