Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Stemonyphantes  Menge, 1866   8 species

Stemonyphantes conspersus (L. Koch, 1879)

Description

Male palp with rectangularly arranged processes of distal apophysis. Epigyne with convex posterior margin. Prosoma with bifurcated median stripe. Chelicerae male: chelicerae without stridulatory organ. Opisthosoma with black folium-like pattern.

Body length male: 5.1 - 5.7 mm
Body length female: 5.5 - 7.0 mm
Additional information

on low twigs of trees and on small bushes

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Central Europe, Italy, Slovenia, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan
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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.

Austria   (Thaler, 1995) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France   (Miquet & Oger, 2020) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Russia, Central   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Northern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a; Koponen et al., 1998) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| 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

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

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

Helsdingen P J van (1968) Comparative notes on the species of the Holarctic genus Stemonyphantes Menge (Araneida, Linyphiidae). Zoologische Mededelingen 43: 117-139 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

Koponen S, Marusik Y M, Tanasevitch A V (1998) New data on the spider fauna of the Polar Urals (Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 6: 109-119 pdf

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

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

Miquet A, Oger P (2020) Stemonyphantes conspersus (L. Koch, 1879), nouvelle espèce pour la France (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 7: 17-19 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 (1983a) Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde in Nordtirol (Österreich) und Nachbarländern: Deckennetzspinnen, Linyphiidae (Arachnida: Aranei). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 63: 135-167 pdf

Thaler K (1995) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 5. Linyphiidae 1: Linyphiinae (sensu Wiehle) (Arachnida: Araneida). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 82: 153-190 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

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