Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Lessertia  Smith, 1908   2 species

Lessertia barbara (Simon, 1884)

Beschreibung
Männchen

Prosoma und Beine gelb-braun. Prosomalänge: 1.25 mm, Prosomabreite: 0.97 mm. Opisthosma hellgrau.

Körperlänge Männchen: 2.3-2.7 mm
Weibchen

Prosomalänge: 1.35 mm, Prosomabreite: 1.09 mm. Färbung wie Männchen.

Körperlänge Weibchen: 2.5-3.3 mm
Zusätzliche Informationen

Überwiegend in Höhlen und Grotten.

Troglophile Art (Mammola et al., 2022)

Merkmalsliste Linyphiidenschlüssel
Verbreitung
  Vorkommen
  kein Nachweis
Weltweite Verbreitung (WSC 2026): Spain, Morocco, Algeria
Abbildungen
Verbreitungsnachweise
Algeria   (Bosmans, 2007; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025; Brignoli, 1979e) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans, 2007) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
Literatur

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Bosmans R (2007) Contribution to the knowledge of the Linyphiidae of the Maghreb. Part XII. Miscellaneous erigonine genera and additional records (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae). Bulletin & Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 143: 117-163 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Brignoli P M (1979e) Ragni d'Italia XXXII. Specie cavernicole di Sicilia (Araneae). Animalia 5: 273-286 pdf

Denis J (1968b) Notes d'aranéologie marocaine. X. Les érigonides du Maroc. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles du Maroc 47: 137-164 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

Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2023) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – first note – on new records of cave spiders. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 66: 44-71 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

Millidge A F (1977) The conformation of the male palpal organs of linyphiid spiders, and its application to the taxonomic and phylogenetic analysis of the family (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 1-60 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Wunderlich J (1995e) Zur Taxonomie europäischer Gattungen der Zwergspinnen (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 4: 643-654 pdf

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