Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Diplocephalus  Bertkau, 1883   39 species

Diplocephalus crassiloba (Simon, 1884)

Description

Prosoma chestnut-brown, fovea and striae blackish; Male: head region with two lobes, variable in size and shape. Sternum brown, margin blackish. Legs brown to orange-brown. TmI at 0.45 in females, at 0.43 in males. Opisthosoma grey to black, covered with short hairs

Body length male: 2.5-3 mm
Body length female: 1.8-2.0 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe, Turkey
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Distribution List
Austria   (Komposch & Steinberger, 1999) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Greece   (Van Keer et al., 2010) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Serbia   (Deltshev et al., 2003b) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi, 1999) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (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

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

Deltshev C D, Ćurčić B P M, Blagoev GA (2003b) The spiders of Serbia. Inst. Zoology, Fac. Biology, Belgrade & Inst. Zoology, Bulg. Acad. Sci., Sofia. 832 pp.

Hänggi A (1999) Nachträge zum "Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen" - 2. Neunachweise von 1993 bis 1999 Archnologische Mitteilungen 18: 17-37 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Komposch C, Steinberger K-H (1999) Rote Liste der Spinnen Kärntens (Arachnida: Araneae). Naturschutz in Kärnten 15: 567-616 pdf

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

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

Millidge A F (1979) Some erigonine spiders from southern Europe. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 316-328 pdf

Van Keer J, Van Keer K, De Koninck H, Ramel G (2010) The arachnofauna (Araneae) of wetland Kerkini (Macedonia-Northern Central Greece). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 62: 141-160 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
11-09-2025 Distribution update Detail
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