Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Lepthyphantes  Menge, 1866   57 species

Lepthyphantes cruentatus  Tanasevitch, 1987

Description
Male

Prosoma reddish brown, prosoma length: 1.10 mm, prosoma width: 0.85 mm. Sternum greyish brown. Chelicerae: promargin with 5 teeth. Legs pale brown. Opisthosoma with dorsal pattern as in female.

Body length male: 2.55 mm
Female

Prosoma brown, prosoma length: 1.15 mm, prosoma width: 0.90 mm. Sternum blackish brown. Chelicerae: promargin with 4 teeth. Legs pale brown, femora and tibiae apically darkened, TmI 0.20. Opisthosoma with dorsal pattern.

Body length female: 2.60 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Caucasus (Russia, Georgia)
Phenology
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"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.

Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) |||
References

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

Tanasevitch A V (1987a) The linyphiid spiders of the Caucasus, USSR (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 67: 297-383 pdf

Tanasevitch A V (1990) The spider family Linyphiidae in the fauna of the Caucasus (Arachnida, Aranei). In: Striganova B R (ed.), Fauna nazemnykh bespozvonochnykh Kavkaza. Moscow, Akaedemia Nauk, pp. 5-114 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
29-10-2013 Datasheet update Detail
29-10-2013 Image insert