Resources:
Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Asthenargus  Simon & Fage, 1922   10 species

Asthenargus bracianus  Miller, 1938

Description

Prosoma brownish, bright. Legs brownish, bright. Opisthosoma blackish.

Body length male: 1.6-1.8 mm
Body length female: 1.6-1.8 mm
Additional information

Sporadically in caves, in xerothermic locations, in dry forests, in deeper soil layers or microcavernicol, winter-active

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Central, Eastern Europe
Figures
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   (van Helsdingen & IJland, 2015) ||| Austria   (Thaler, 1991a) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Greece   (Thaler, 1991a) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2016a; Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Serbia   (Grbić & Hänggi, 2023) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) |||
References

Grbić G, Hänggi A (2023) Additional spider records from Mt. Fruška Gora (Serbia) with a first insight into winter species. Acta Entomologica Serbica 27(2, 2022): 67-81 pdf

Helsdingen P J van, IJland S (2015) A quick scan of the spider fauna in the surroundings of Përmet, Albania (Arachnida, Araneae) - preliminary report. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 35: 15-33 pdf

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

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

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 pdf

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

Naumova M V, Lazarov S, Petrov B, Deltshev C (2016a) New faunistic data on the cave-dwelling spiders in the Balkan Peninsula (Araneae). Ecologia Montenegrina 7: 425-438 pdf

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 pdf

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

Thaler K (1991a) Über wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen-VIII (Arachnida: Aranei, Linyphiidae: Erigoninae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 98: 165-184 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 (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

Wunderlich J (1969) Zur Spinnenfauna Deutschlands, IX. Beschreibung seltener oder bisher unbekannter Arten (Arachnida: Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 50: 381-393 pdf

Updates
05-02-2023 Distribution insert Detail
29-08-2021 Distribution update Detail
29-08-2021 Distribution insert Detail
08-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
12-11-2016 Distribution update Detail
24-12-2015 Distribution update Detail
29-07-2014 Distribution update Detail