Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Diplocephalus  Bertkau, 1883   39 species

Diplocephalus protuberans  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875)

Description

Tibial apophysis with pointed process, shorter than width of tibial apophysis. Epigyne with anteriorly distinctly marked off epigynal plates. Prosoma brown to dark brown. Legs brown. Opisthosoma black-grey.

Body length male: 1.4-2.25 mm
Body length female: 1.5-2.5 mm
Additional information

preferably at headwaters of streams

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Europe
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
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.

Austria   (Komposch, 2000) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| France   (no references) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Blick T (2024) Zur Spinnenfauna (Araneae) der Quellen und Fließgewässer [The spider fauna (Araneae) at headwaters and banks of brooks in the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park (Germany, Hesse)]. In: Schock B, Krawina J, Zaenker S (eds): Quellen und Fließgewässer im Nationalpark Kellerwald-Edersee. Forschungsberichte des Nationalparks Kellerwald-Edersee 3: 120-123

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

Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362 pdf

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

Komposch C (2000) Bemerkenswerte Spinnen aus Südost-Österreich I (Arachnida: Araneae). Carinthia II 190/110: 343-380 pdf

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp. pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp. pdf

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html pdf

Thaler K (1978a) Über wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen, V (Arachnida: Aranei, Erigonidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 28: 183-200 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
21-10-2024 Image insert
11-06-2023 Distribution update Detail
03-05-2020 Image insert