Bolephthyphantes index (Thorell, 1856)
Description
Cymbium with hump on base. Paracymbium with broad, robust process on the terminal part. Epigyne with broad process of anterior epigynal plate, posteriorly with 2 lobes. Prosoma yellow-brown, with dark median band and margin. Sternum yellowish grey-brown. Chelicerae light yellow. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma dark grey, dorsally with numerous white spots, sometimes with vague dark pattern.
Body length male: 2.3-3.0 mmBody length female: 2.3-3.4 mm
Additional information
on tree roots, in crevices in the mountains
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wiehle 1956)
Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1956)
Pedipalp
(Agnarsson 1996)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Paracymbium
(Růžička 2000)
Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Růžička 2000)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1956)
Epigyne
(Agnarsson 1996)
Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Morka unpubl.)
Epigyne, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva
(Wiehle 1956)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Agnarsson 1996)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
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.
References
Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 
Agnarsson I (1996) Íslenskar köngulær Fjölrit Náttúrufræðistofnunar 31: 1-175
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
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
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
Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001]
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Miquet A, Oger P, Déjean S (2022) Bolephthyphantes caucasicus (Tanasevitch, 1990), nouvelle espèce pour la France découverte dans les Alpes et les Pyrénées (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 9: 26-29
Morka G H (unpubl.)
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
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
Růžička V (2000) Spiders (Araneae) of two valleys in the Krkonose Mts. (Czech Republic). Ekológia (Bratislava) 19, Suppl. 3: 235-244
Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html
Wiehle H (1956) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, X. 28: Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1-337
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