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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Megalepthyphantes  Wunderlich, 1994   12 species

Megalepthyphantes lydiae  Wunderlich, 1994

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011585

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Description
Male

Lamella characteristica knee-like bent. Prosoma yellow-brown, with darker median band. Sternum blackish. Legs yellow-brown, annulated. Opisthosoma light grey, with dorsal chevrons and light longitudinal band laterally.

Body length male: 3.5 mm
Female

Epigyne with a large, protruding scapus. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 3.8 mm
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 1994b)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Tanasevitch 2019c)

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male Embolus
(Wunderlich 1994b)

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male Embolus
(Tanasevitch 2019c)

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male Embolus
(Tanasevitch 2019c)

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male Embolus
(Tanasevitch 2019c)

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male Embolic division, retrolateral view
(Tanasevitch 2019c)

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male Lamella characteristica, retrolateral view
(Tanasevitch 2019c)

species

male Paracymbium, retrolateral view
(Tanasevitch 2019c)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 1994b)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Tanasevitch 2019c)

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male Palpal tibia, prolateral view
(Tanasevitch 2019c)

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male Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Tanasevitch 2019c)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Wunderlich 1994b)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1994b)

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female Epigyne, dorsal view
(Tanasevitch 2019c)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Tanasevitch 2019c)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Tanasevitch 2019c)

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.

Greece   (Naumova et al., 2016a; Wunderlich, 1994b; Tanasevitch, 2019c) |||
References

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

Tanasevitch A V (2019c) On Megalepthyphantes lydiae Wunderlich, 1994 (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 126: 147-150 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 (1994b) Beschreibung der neuen Spinnen-Gattung Megalepthyphantes aus der Familie der Baldachinspinnen und einer bisher unbekannten Art aus Griechenland (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 104: 168-171 pdf

Updates
09-11-2022 Distribution update Detail
08-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
17-10-2019 Image insert