araneae - Improphantes nitidus

Improphantes nitidus (Thorell, 1875)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010903

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 2020): 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

Austria ( no references ) ||| Czechia ( no references ) ||| France ( no references ) ||| Germany ( no references ) ||| Italy ( Pantini & Isaia, 2019; ) ||| Liechtenstein ( no references ) ||| Montenegro ( no references ) ||| Poland ( no references ) ||| Romania ( no references ) ||| Serbia ( no references ) ||| Slovakia ( no references ) ||| Switzerland ( no references ) ||| Ukraine ( no references ) |||

References

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

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

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). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152

Wiehle H (1963b) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der deutschen Spinnenfauna III. Zool Jb Syst 90: 227-298

World Spider Catalog (2020) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.03.2020) doi: 10.24436/2