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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Megalepthyphantes  Wunderlich, 1994   12 species

Megalepthyphantes minotaur  Tanasevitch & Wunderlich, 2015

Description
Male

Body and legs pale. Cephalic part slightly elevated. Eyes small, reduced, with dark margins. Prosoma length: 1.2 mm. Chelicerae: promargin with 3 stout teeth.

Body length male: 2.5 mm
Female

Female unknown.

Additional information

In cave.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece (Crete)
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.

Greece / Crete   (Tanasevitch & Wunderlich, 2015) |||
References

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

Tanasevitch A V, Wunderlich J (2015) A new Megalepthyphantes Wunderlich 1994 (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from a cave of Crete (Greece). Beiträge zur Araneologie 9: 452-455 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
05-12-2024 Distribution update Detail
11-06-2015 Image insert
11-06-2015 Distribution update Detail