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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Troglohyphantes  Joseph, 1882   134 species

Troglohyphantes novicordis Thaler, 1978

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013083

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Description

Male palp with strongly developed, sickle-shaped dorsal branch of lamina. Epigyne with narrowly stalked basal part of scapus, distal part truncated.

Body length male: 2.2 mm
Body length female: 2.6-3.1 mm
Additional information

found in a cave in Styria

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Austria, Slovenia
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Thaler 1978c)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Thaler 1978c)

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male Embolus, prolateral view
(Thaler 1978c)

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male Embolic division, dorsal view
(Thaler 1978c)

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male Median apophysis
(Thaler 1978c)

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male Lamella characteristica, retrolateral view
(Thaler 1978c)

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male Lamella characteristica, ventral view
(Thaler 1978c)

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male Paracymbium, retrolateral view
(Thaler 1978c)

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male Paracymbium, frontal view
(Thaler 1978c)

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male Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Thaler 1978c)

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male Chelicera, frontal view
(Thaler 1978c)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Thaler 1978c)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Thaler 1978c)

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   (Kropf & Horak, 1996) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) |||
References

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

Kropf C, Horak P (1996) Die Spinnen der Steiermark (Arachnida, Araneae). Mitteilungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines für Steiermark Sonderheft: 1-112 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 pdf

Thaler K (1978c) Troglohyphantes novicordis n.sp. aus der Steiermark, Österreich (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Senckenbergiana biologica 59: 289-296 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
16-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
01-10-2013 Image insert