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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Gongylidiellum  Simon, 1884   9 species

Gongylidiellum edentatum Miller, 1951

Description
Male

Colouration as in females. Prosoma reticulated. Chelicerae without tooth-like hair tubercle anteriorly. Palp: tibial apophysis very short and simple.

Prosoma length: 0.7 mm, prosoma width: 0.5 mm.

Body length male: 1.3 mm
Female

Prosoma clear yellow. Opisthosoma whitish. Legs clear yellow. Stridulatory organ on opisthosoma: lung covers with transverse stridulatory ridges and coxa IV with stridulatory tooth posteriorly. Epigyne without scape, transverse, narrow, elliptic, clear plate posterior. Vulva characteristic.

Prosoma length: 0.7 mm, prosoma width: 0.5 mm.

Body length female: 1.3 mm
Additional information

In beech forests with thick litter layer, in humid sphagnum of bogs, in moss of spruce forests, up to 1400 m

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Italy, Germany, Czechia, Austria, Slovenia
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Distribution List
Austria   (Thaler, 1973a; Thaler, 1999b) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France   (Millidge, 1979; Le Peru, 2007) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015; Thaler, 1973a) |||
References

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 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

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

Miller F (1951) Pavouci zvírena vrchovist' u Rejvízu v Jesenicích [Araneous-fauna of the peat-bogs near Rejvíz (High-Jeseník, ČSR)]. Přírodovědecký Sborník Ostravského Kraje 12: 202-247 pdf

Miller F (1966) Einige neue oder unvollkommen bekannte Zwergspinnen (Micryphantidae) aus der Tschechoslowakei (Araneidea). Acta entomologica Bohemoslovaca 63: 149-164 pdf

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

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 pdf

Thaler K (1973a) Über wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen, III (Arachn., Aranei, Erigonidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 60: 41-60 pdf

Thaler K (1999b) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 6. Linyphiidae 2: Erigoninae (sensu Wiehle) (Arachnida: Araneida). Veröffentlichungen des Tiroler Landesmuseums Ferdinandeum 79: 215-264 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
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11-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail