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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Diplocentria  Hull, 1911   4 species

Diplocentria mediocris (Simon, 1884)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010032

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Description

Epigyne with unstructured epigynal plate, slightly indented posteriorly. Prosoma pale yellow-brown to middle brown, with star-shaped spot and narrow black margin. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma grey to light grey.

Body length male: 1.3-1.6 mm
Body length female: 1.3-1.6 mm
Additional information

in wet moss of a forest (South France), on a riverbank under stones (South Germany), in a pubescent oak forest (South Tyrol, Italy)

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Italy, Central Europe
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler 1986a)

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male Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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male Bulbus, prolateral view
(Thaler 1986a)

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male Embolic division, prolateral view
(Thaler 1986a)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Thaler 1986a)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne
(Wunderlich 1969)

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female Vulva
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Vulva
(Wunderlich 1969)

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   (Thaler, 1999b) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi, 2003) |||
References

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Hänggi A (2003) Nachträge zum "Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen" - 3. Neunachweise von 1999 bis 2002 und Nachweise synanthroper Spinnen Arachnologische Mitteilungen 26: 36-54 pdf

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin 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

Thaler K (1986a) Über wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen, VII. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 59: 487-498 pdf

Thaler K (1999b) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 6. Linyphiidae 2: Erigoninae (sensu Wiehle) (Arachnida: Araneida). Veröffentlichungen des Tiroler Landesmuseums Ferdinandeum 79: 215-264 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

Wunderlich J (1969) Zur Spinnenfauna Deutschlands, IX. Beschreibung seltener oder bisher unbekannter Arten (Arachnida: Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 50: 381-393 pdf

Updates
23-02-2025 Distribution update Detail
11-02-2014 Image insert