Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Tapinocyba  Simon, 1884   18 species

Tapinocyba mitis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882)

Description
Male

Tibial apophysis broad, ending in 2 small tips.
Prosoma orange-brown. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma light grey to grey.

Body length male: 1.5 mm
Female

Epigyne with ± roundish sclerotised surrounding area. 

Body length female: 1.5 mm
Additional information

In open and damp places. Contents probably more than one species.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Albania: van Helsdingen & IJland (2015: 29): sub 'cf.'
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, France, Britain, Denmark, Latvia, Albania, Bulgaria, Russia (Europe)
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Albania   (van Helsdingen & IJland, 2015; Blick, 2018) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018; Popov et al., 2000) ||| Denmark   (Hansen et al., 2015) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Latvia   (Cera, 2018) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin et al., 2011) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| 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 (2018) A small collection of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the River Vjosa, Albania – with an updated spider checklist of Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 213-232 pdf

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

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152 pdf

Denis J (1948a) Notes sur les érigonides. VII. Remarques sur le genre Araeoncus Simon et quelques genres voisins. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 53: 19-32 pdf

Esyunin S L, Polyanin A B, Vlasov P I, Shulaeva E A (2011) [Spider fauna of “Predural’e” reserve (Perm Area): 40 years of researches]. Bulletin of Perm University, Biology 2011(3-4): 16-23 pdf

Hansen M D D, Olsen K, Jensen T S (2015) Nye arter i Danmark. Terrestriske arthropoder og vertebrater [New species in Denmark. Terrestrial arthropods and vertebrates]. Naturhistorisk Museum, Aarhus, 94 pp. pdf

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

Helsdingen P J van, IJland S (2015) A quick scan of the spider fauna in the surroundings of Përmet, Albania (Arachnida, Araneae) - preliminary report. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 35: 15-33 pdf

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

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

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

Popov V, Deltshev C, Blagoev G, Krusteva I, Deltshev D (2000) Epigeobiont animal assemblages from two landscapes of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast: Relationship to habitat type, assemblage structure and biodiversity. II. Spiders (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 52: 51-87 pdf

Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp. 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
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03-02-2019 Distribution update Detail
24-12-2015 Distribution update Detail