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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Tenuiphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996   26 species

Tenuiphantes fogarasensis (Weiss, 1986)

Description
Male

Prosoma yellow-brown, margin darker. Prosoma length: 1.31 mm, prosoma width: 0.78 mm. Sternum black-brown. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma black, dorsum with a dark patch in anterior half, the first transverse stripes reduced to dark spots, 3-5 transverse stripes, lateral longitudinal band present or reduced to a pair of spots, venter black.

Body length male: 2.45 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 1.37 mm, prosoma width: 1.03 mm. Colouration as in males. Opisthosomal pattern more contrasting.

Body length female: 3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
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Global distribution (WSC 2026): Romania
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) |||
References

Weiss I (1986) Lepthyphantes fogarasensis n. sp., eine hochalpine Art der tenuis-Gruppe aus den Südkarpaten (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 73: 97-100 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 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
05-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
31-12-2013 Datasheet update Detail
31-12-2013 Image insert