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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Centromerus  Dahl, 1886   71 species

Centromerus europaeus (Simon, 1911)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009736

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Description
Male

Eyes absent.

Female

Eyes absent. Epigyne distinct.

Additional information

Cave dweller.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: "Identifications from Portugal, Spain and Algeria are not reliable" (Bosmans et al. 2010), therefore deleted; all records from the Balkans are misidentified (Komnenov 2020a)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Simon 1929)

species

female Epigyne
(Simon 1929)

Distribution List
Croatia  Removed (Fage, 1931; Komnenov, 2020a) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Montenegro  Removed (Naumova et al., 2016a; Komnenov, 2020a) |||
References

Bosmans R, Cardoso P, Crespo L C (2010) A review of the linyphiid spiders of Portugal, with the description of six new species (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 2473: 1-67 pdf

Fage L (1931) Araneae, 5e série, précédée d'un essai sur l'évolution souterraine et son déterminisme. In Biospeologica, LV. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 71: 99-291 pdf

Komnenov M (2020a) Subterranean spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Montenegro. The Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, Proceedings of the Section of Natural Sciences 23: 119-169 pdf

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

Naumova M V, Lazarov S, Petrov B, Deltshev C (2016a) New faunistic data on the cave-dwelling spiders in the Balkan Peninsula (Araneae). Ecologia Montenegrina 7: 425-438 pdf

Simon E (1929) Les arachnides de France 6 (3). Paris (Roret): 533-772 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
03-11-2020 Distribution update Detail
18-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
18-06-2020 Datasheet update Detail
08-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
04-05-2019 Image insert
12-11-2016 Distribution update Detail