araneae - Improphantes nitidus

Description

Male palp with 2 tips on end of lamella. Paracymbium with large unforked tooth. Epigyne with pointed plates lateral to scapus, as long as scapus (in lateral view). Prosoma dark yellow-brown, with black margin. Legs olive-brown. Opisthosoma grey-brown.

Body length male: 1.7-2.2 mm
Body length female: 1.7-2.2 mm

Additional information

in the litter layer of dry forests and at forest borders

Character states from linyphiid key

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2025): Europe

Phenology



Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Figures

Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1963b)

Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

Epigyne, lateral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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 (no references) ||| Czechia (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France (no references) ||| Germany (no references) ||| Italy (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Liechtenstein (Arnold, 2001) ||| Poland (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania (no references) ||| Serbia (no references) ||| Slovakia (no references) ||| Switzerland (no references) ||| Ukraine (no references) |||

References

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

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

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html

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

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2

Improphantes nitidus (Thorell, 1875)