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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Walckenaeria  Blackwall, 1833   62 species

Walckenaeria insperata Millidge, 1979

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013310

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Description

Male palpal organs indentical with Walckenaeria antica. Prosoma orange-brown with blackish fovea and striae. Sternum orange-brown, mainly on margins suffused with black. Legs whitish yellow to pale brown. Opisthosoma grey to black, covered with short hairs. TmI at 0.50-0.54 in females, at 0.47-0.5 in males

Body length male: 2.2-2.3 mm
Body length female: 2.1-2.2 mm
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
Figures
species

male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Millidge 1979)

species

female Epigyne
(Millidge 1979)

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female Vulva
(Millidge 1979)

Distribution List
Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

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

Millidge A F (1979) Some erigonine spiders from southern Europe. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 316-328 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