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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Palliduphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 2001   66 species

Palliduphantes cadiziensis (Wunderlich, 1980)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011118

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Description
Male

Lamella characteristica of male palp long and bifurcate. Embolus pointed.

Prosoma and legs yellowish to yellowish orange. Eyes surrounded with black. Opisthosoma grey to dark grey, often with paler spots and bars

Body length male: 1.6-1.9 mm
Female

Epigyne strongly protruding. Scape strongly folded, distal part narrowing. 

Body length female: 2.1-3.5 mm
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Bosmans 2006b)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

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male Pedipalp, ventro-prolateral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

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male Pedipalp, ventro-retrolateral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

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male Embolic division, ventral view
(Bosmans 2006b)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosmans 2006b)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Bosmans 2006b)

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female Epigyne, dorsal view
(Bosmans 2006b)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

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female Scape, dorsal view
(Bosmans 2006b)

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female Scape, lateral view
(Bosmans 2006b)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Bosmans 2006b)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

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.

Gibraltar (UK)   (Bosmans, 2006b) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans, 2006b; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Bosmans R (2006b) Contribution to the knowledge of the Linyphiidae of the Maghreb. Part X. New data on Lepthyphantes Menge (sensu lato) species (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Belgian Journal of Zoology 136: 173-191 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184 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
14-05-2025 Image insert
14-05-2025 Distribution update Detail
28-11-2022 Distribution insert Detail
28-11-2022 Distribution update Detail