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 2022): 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

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

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

WSC (2022) World Spider Catalog. Version 23.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (21.07.2022) doi: 10.24436/2