Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Piniphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996   3 species

Piniphantes pinicola  (Simon, 1884)

Description

Palp male: spine on patella smaller than spine on tibia, lamella ventrally with large distal tooth. Epigyne with distinct scapus. Prosoma yellow-brown. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma grey to black.

Body length male: 1.8-2.2 mm
Body length female: 1.8-2.9 mm
Additional information

In rocky and grass heathland of mountains

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Europe, Turkey, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Armenia), Iran, Turkmenistan
Phenology
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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.

Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Armenia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Austria   (no references) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Czechia   (Řezáč et al., 2021; Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France   (no references) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2017) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (no references) ||| Ukraine   (Gnelitsa, 2005) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 pdf

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

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

Danışman T, Koç H, Coşar İ, Karanfil K C, Arslan M (2013) Two new genus records for spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Munis Entomology and Zoology 8: 588-592 pdf

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 pdf

Gnelitsa V A (2005) [Preliminary data on spiders of the family Linyphiidae of the National Natural Park "Synevyr" (Carpathians, Ukraine)]. Nature Reserves in Ukraine 11: 54-59 pdf

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Komnenov M (2017) New data on spider fauna (Araneae) of Shar Mountain, north-western Macedonia. Proceedings of the 5th Congress of the Ecologists of Macedonia, with international participation (Ohrid, 19th-22nd October 2016). Special issues of the Macedonian Ecological Society 13: 44-61 pdf

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp. pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Řezáč M, Růžička V, Hula V, Dolanský J, Machač O, Roušar A (2021) Spiders newly observed in Czechia in recent years – overlooked or invasive species? BioInvasions Records 10: 555-566 pdf

Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp. pdf

Růžička V (2012b) Pavouci České republiky. Pavouk 33: 3-5 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

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
16-02-2023 Distribution update Detail
05-08-2021 Distribution update Detail
06-01-2019 Distribution update Detail
03-10-2017 Distribution update Detail
04-12-2013 Distribution update Detail