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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Mecynargus  Kulczyński, 1894   11 species

Mecynargus brocchus (L. Koch, 1872)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011559

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Description

Tibial apophysis dorsally with 2 pointed processes. Prosoma brown, with blackish pattern. Prosoma male: saddle-like shape. Legs brown, with blackish pattern. Opisthosoma blackish.

Body length male: 1.8-1.9 mm
Body length female: 1.7-2 mm
Additional information

high alpine species, approx. 2000-3000 m

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria)
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Thaler 1969)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Thaler 1969)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Millidge 1977)

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male Embolic division
(Thaler 1969)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Thaler 1969)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Thaler 1969)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Thaler 1980a)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Thaler 1969)

Distribution List
Austria   (Thaler, 1999b) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

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

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

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Millidge A F (1977) The conformation of the male palpal organs of linyphiid spiders, and its application to the taxonomic and phylogenetic analysis of the family (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 1-60 pdf

Thaler K (1969) Über einige wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus Tirol (Arachn., Araneae, Erigonidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 57: 195-219 pdf

Thaler K (1980a) Über wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen - VI (Arachnida: Aranei, Erigonidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 87: 579-603 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
02-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
19-01-2020 Image insert