Lepthyphantes: tenuis-group

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Pedipalp tibia with 3 bristles; base of cymbium with hump

Tenuiphantes cristatus (Menge, 1866)

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- Pedipalp tibia with 1 bristle; base of cymbium without hump

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Basal branch of paracymbium without tooth, transverse branch with tooth

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- Basal branch of paracymbium with tooth, transverse branch with or without tooth

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Tips of lamella parallel; paracymbium with tooth on transverse branch as fig.

Tenuiphantes jacksonoides (van Helsdingen, 1977)

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Tips of lamella divergent; paracymbium with tooth in transverse branch as fig.

Tenuiphantes jacksoni (Schenkel, 1925)

female

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Paracymbium with 1 tooth

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- Paracymbium with 2 teeth

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Tooth on paracymbium very small, in the middle of basal part, directed toward tibia

Tenuiphantes zimmermanni (Bertkau, 1890)

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- Tooth on paracymbium large, directed toward cymbium

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Tip of lamella straight; with fine stridulatory organ on outer side of chelicerae

Tenuiphantes flavipes (Blackwall, 1854)

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- Tip of lamella bent

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Tip of lamella as fig.; opisthosoma black, anteriorly with two white spots each continues in a white lateral band or two spots posteriorly

Tenuiphantes nigriventris (L. Koch, 1879)

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Tip of lamella sickle-shaped; with stout stridulatory organ on outer side of chelicerae

Tenuiphantes mengei (Kulczyński, 1887)

female

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Paracymbial teeth unequal in length; distal tooth of lamella long and pointed

Tenuiphantes tenebricola (Wider, 1834)

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Paracymbial teeth equal in length; distal tooth of lamella short and broad

Tenuiphantes tenuis (Blackwall, 1852)

female

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Stalk of scapus short, visible part of scapus circular, almost completely covering epigynal groove

Tenuiphantes flavipes (Blackwall, 1854)

male

- Scapus distinctly stalked, parallel-sided or gradually broadened, visible part of scapus not circular

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Visible part of scapus gradually broadened, deeply incised medially

Tenuiphantes mengei (Kulczyński, 1887)

male

- Visible part of scapus with parallel sides

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Visible part of scapus posteriorly with a sclerotised transverse ridge

Tenuiphantes tenebricola (Wider, 1834)

male

- Different

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Visible part of scapus posteriorly with median depression

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- Visible part of scapus posteriorly without depression

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Stridulatory organ and epigyne as fig.; Prosoma dark brown; legs clay yellow; opisthosoma yellowish grey with black chevrons

Tenuiphantes jacksoni (Schenkel, 1925)

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Stridulatory organ as fig.; prosoma grey-brown; legs pale brown; epigyne and opisthosoma like jacksoni

Tenuiphantes jacksonoides (van Helsdingen, 1977)

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Scapus shortly stalked

Tenuiphantes cristatus (Menge, 1866)

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- Scapus with long stalk

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Visible part of scapus anchor-shaped anteriorly, lateral margins of subjacent part of scapus semicircular

Tenuiphantes tenuis (Blackwall, 1852)

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Visible part of scapus rounded laterally, lateral margins of subjacent part of scapus ± parallel to stalk of scapus

Tenuiphantes zimmermanni (Bertkau, 1890)

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