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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Staveleya  Sherwood, 2021   4 species

Staveleya paulae (Simon, 1918)

Description
Male

Tibial apophysis with tooth on margin. 

Female

Epigyne with large, triangular median plate.

Additional information

southside of the Alps

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Switzerland, Italy
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
females all the year round
Figures
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.

France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

Hansen H (1995) Über die Arachniden-Fauna von urbanen Lebensräumen in Venedig - III. Die epigäischen Spinnen eines Stadtparkes (Arachnida: Araneae). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 44: 7-36 pdf

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

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Millidge A F (1978) The genera Mecopisthes Simon and Hypsocephalus n. gen. and their phylogenetic relationships (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 113-123 pdf

Noflatscher M-T (1991) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna Südtirols - III: Epigäische Spinnen an Xerotherm-Standorten am Mitterberg, bei Neustift und Sterzing (Arachnida: Aranei). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 78: 79-92 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
15-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
26-07-2020 Image insert