Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Minicia  Thorell, 1875   6 species

Minicia candida Denis, 1946

Description

Cymbium with straight, forked apophysis. Prosoma yellowish-brownish, unicoloured. Opisthosoma whitish dorsally, grained grey ventrally.

Body length male: 1.5-1.7 mm
Body length female: 1.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Italy, Austria, North Macedonia, Ukraine
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Distribution List
Austria   (Thaler, 2000) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2017) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Vlasov, 2021) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Denis J (1965a) Notes sur les érigonides. XXX. Le genre Minicia Thorell. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 100: 181-205 pdf

Esyunin S L, Vlasov S V (2021) [Remarks to the fauna and biotopic distribution of spiders in the Talovskaya steppe]. In: Steppes of Northern Eurasia. Proceedings of the IX international symposium. OSU Publishing House, Orenburg. pp. 300-304 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

Komnenov M (2017) New data on spider fauna (Araneae) of Shar Mountain, north-western Macedonia. Proceedings of the 5th Congress of the Ecologists of Macedonia, with international participation (Ohrid, 19th-22nd October 2016). Special issues of the Macedonian Ecological Society 13: 44-61 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

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

Thaler K (1993) Über wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen - IX (Arachnida: Aranei, Linyphiidae: Erigoninae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 100: 641-654 pdf

Thaler K (2000) Fragmenta faunistica Tirolensia - XIII (Arachnida: Araneae; Myriapoda: Diplopoda; Insecta, Diptera: Mycetophiloidea, Psychodidae, Trichoceridae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 87: 243-256 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

Updates
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