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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Scandichrestus  Wunderlich, 1995   1 species

Scandichrestus tenuis (Holm, 1943)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012528

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Description

Tibial apophysis long, tapering to a rounded tip. Prosoma yellow-brown, with dark pattern. Sternum grey-brown. Legs yellow-brown, bright. Opisthosoma grey-brown.

Body length male: 1.3-1.4 mm
Body length female: 1.7 mm
Additional information

In moss and litter layer of subalpine heathland, birch forest

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Holm 1943)

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male Pedipalp
(Holm 1943)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Holm 1943)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Holm 1943)

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male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Habitus, dorsal view
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

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male Habitus, lateral view
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

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male Habitus, ventral view
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Holm 1943)

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female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Distribution List
Estonia   (Vilbaste, 1987) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Northern   (Nekhaeva, 2020) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 pdf

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp. pdf

Fjellberg A (unpubl.) .

Holm Å (1943) Zur Kenntnis der Taxonomie, Ökologie und Verbreitung der schwedischen Arten der Spinnengattungen Rhaebothorax Sim., Typhochrestus Sim. und Latithorax n. gen. Arkiv för Zoologi 34(A19): 1-32 pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Nekhaeva A A (2020) On the spider fauna (Arachnida: Aranei) of the Kanin Peninsula and Kolguev Island, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 29: 387-398 pdf

Vilbaste A (1987) Eesti Ämblikud (Aranei). Annoteeritud nimestik. Estonian spiders (Aranei). An annotated check list. Valgus, Tallinn. 113 pp. & 512 maps on 67 unpag. pages pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
14-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
02-10-2020 Distribution update Detail
06-01-2020 Image insert
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