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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Tenuiphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996   26 species

Tenuiphantes jacksoni (Schenkel, 1925)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012879

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Description

Male palp with divergent tips of lamella. Paracymbium with tooth on transverse branch. Prosoma dark brown. Legs clay-yellow. Opisthosoma yellowish grey with black chevrons.

Body length male: 1.9-2.5 mm
Body length female: 1.9-2.5 mm
Additional information

mainly above 2000 m a.s.l.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Record from Spain is Tenuiphantes cantabropyrenaeus (Bosmans & Castro 2016). Records based only on females are doubtful (Balkans, Turkey).
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Alps (Switzerland, Italy), Balkans?, Turkey?
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

species

male Paracymbium
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

species

female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

species

female Chelicerae, ventral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

Distribution List
Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Italy   (Tampucci et al., 2017) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Romania   (Urák & Fetykó, 2006) ||| Spain  Removed (Bosmans & Castro, 2016) ||| Switzerland   (Schenkel, 1925; Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Karabulut & Türkeş, 2011; Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
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

Bosmans R, Castro A (2016) Tenuiphantes cantabropyrenaeus n. sp., a new Cantabro-Pyrenean spider species (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnology 17: 43-46 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

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

Karabulut H, Türkeş T (2011) New records of Linyphiidae (Araneae) for Turkish araneo-fauna. Serket 11: 117-123 pdf

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 pdf

Schenkel E (1925) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der schweizerischen Spinnenfauna. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 32: 253-318 pdf

Tampucci D, Azzoni R S, Boracchi P, Citterio C, Compostella C, Diolaiuti G, Isaia M, Marano G, Smiraglia C, Gobbi M, Caccianiga M (2017) Debris-covered glaciers as habitat for plant and arthropod species: Environmental framework and colonization patterns. Ecological Complexity 32A: 42-52 pdf

Urák I, Fetykó K (2006) Arachnological studies in the Retezat National Park (Romania). Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research 3: 79-88 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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