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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Flagelliphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996   1 species

Flagelliphantes bergstromi (Schenkel, 1931)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010594

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Description
Male

Opisthosoma uniformly greyish. Metatarsus I with a dorsal bristle and trichobothrium on distal half. Palp: lamella characteristic in lateral view decreasing in width continuously from base to pointed end. Prosoma length: 0.7 mm, prosoma width: 0.7 mm.

Body length male: 1.35 mm
Female

Posoma uniformly greyish. Metatarsus I with a dorsal bristle and trichobothrium on distal half. Epigyne: handlebar-shaped, reaching far posteriad, not much wider than long. Prosoma length: 0.8 mm.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Northern Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Holm 1945)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Aakra et al. 2016)

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male Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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Leg I, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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Femur I, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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Tibia I, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Distribution List
Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Norway   (Aakra et al., 2016) ||| Russia, Northern   (Koponen et al., 1998) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
References

Aakra K, Morka G H, Antonson A, Farlund M, Wrånes R E, Frølandshagen R, Løvbrekke H, Furuseth P, Fjellberg A, Lemke M, Pfliegler W P, Andersen S, Olsen K M, Aadland B, Berggren K (2016) Spiders new to Norway (Arachnida, Araneae) with ecological, taxonomical and faunistic comments. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 63: 6-43 pdf

Farlund M (2019) Norwegian Spiders - Norske edderkopper. Siste oppdatering for funn av nye arter 10. oktober, 2019. Online at http://crocea.wordpress.com/norsk-artsliste/ pdf

Holm Å (1945) Zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna des Torneträskgebietes. Arkiv för Zoologi 36(A15): 1-80 pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Koponen S, Marusik Y M, Tanasevitch A V (1998) New data on the spider fauna of the Polar Urals (Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 6: 109-119 pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 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

Updates
18-07-2025 Distribution update Detail
05-09-2021 Image insert
14-01-2017 Image insert
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail
26-02-2014 Distribution update Detail