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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Centromerus  Dahl, 1886   71 species

Centromerus subalpinus  Lessert, 1907

Description

Male palp with long, narrow basal apophysis. Paracymbium on median part with transversely truncated process. Epigyne dark red-brown, on posterior margin with dark brown bulges on each side of scapus. Prosoma brown to dark red-brown, margin mostly darkened. Sternum brown, tinged with black, with dark margin. Chelicerae dark brown. Legs dark brown. Opisthosoma grey-brown to almost black, with robust bristles dorsally in anterior part.

Body length male: 2-3 mm
Body length female: 2-3 mm
Additional information

In moss and grass, mostly above timberline in mountains

Frequency: Not rare

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Not in Sardinia (Bosmans & Gasparo 2015)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Alps (France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Slovenia)
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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.

Austria   (no references) ||| France   (no references) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (no references) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 pdf

Bosmans R, Gasparo F (2015) A new cave-dwelling Centromerus from Sardinia (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Fragmenta Entomologica 46: 113-116 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

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 pdf

Pantini P, Sassu A, Serra G (2013) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida Araneae) of Sardinia. Biodiversity Journal 4: 3-104 pdf

Wiehle H (1956) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, X. 28: Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1-337 pdf

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 pdf

Updates
05-02-2019 Datasheet update Detail
25-06-2013 Distribution update Detail