Lepthyphantes: pallidus-Gruppe

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Lamella robust, parallel-sided, truncated distally; terminal branch of paracymbium large

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- Lamella mostly long and narrow, always pointed distally; terminal branch of paracymbium small

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End of lamella transversely truncated; without posterior tooth on paracymbial joint branch

Palliduphantes pallidus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871)

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End of lamella finely serrated; paracymbial joint branch with robust posterior tooth

Palliduphantes alutacius (Simon, 1884)

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End of lamella deeply forked

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- Different

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End of lamella with almost equally large branches; disto-lateral branch of lamella characteristica longer than in milleri

Palliduphantes montanus (Kulczyński, 1898)

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Disto-lateral tooth on lamella characteristica shorter than in montanus

Palliduphantes milleri (Starega, 1972)

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End of lamella with 2 unequally large branches

Palliduphantes arenicola (Denis, 1964)

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End of lamella with upper secondary tooth

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End of lamella without upper secondary tooth, at most serrated

Palliduphantes ericaeus (Blackwall, 1853)

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Paracymbium 1.5 times as long as wide; terminal part of lamella (from upper tooth to tip) 0.3 of total length of lamella

Palliduphantes pillichi (Kulczyński, 1915)

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Paracymbium as long as wide; terminal part of lamella 0.45 of total length of lamella

Palliduphantes insignis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1913)

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Upper part of scapus deeply indented posteriorly; lobe of scapus ca. as wide as lobes of epigyne

Palliduphantes montanus (Kulczyński, 1898)

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Lobe of scapus narrower than lobes of epigyne

Palliduphantes milleri (Starega, 1972)

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Visible part of scapus square, flattened

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- Visible part of scapus not square, strongly convex

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Visible part of scapus 2 times as long as wide, under part of scapus longer and wider

Palliduphantes alutacius (Simon, 1884)

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Visible part of scapus 1.5 times as long as wide, under part of scapus as long as wide

Palliduphantes pallidus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871)

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Scapus flat, hardly bulged; lateral epigynal parts ca. as long as wide, rounded

Palliduphantes ericaeus (Blackwall, 1853)

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- Scapus conspicuously bulged; lateral epigynal parts distinctly longer than wide

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Epigyne as fig.

Palliduphantes insignis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1913)

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Epigyne as fig.

Palliduphantes pillichi (Kulczyński, 1915)

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Further species, female hardly described, in dry meadows and fallow, France and Switzerland

Palliduphantes arenicola (Denis, 1964)

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