Taxon details


Microlinyphia pusilla (Sundevall, 1830)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-11-04
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011824]
  • Distribution: North America, Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia, China, Mongolia, Japan. Introduced to St. Helena
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Linyphia globosa Wider, 1834, 1 f (4183-124)
  • Lectotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Linyphia pratensis Wider, 1834, 1 f (3945-124)
  • Lectotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; f (253) of Linyphia carnica (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
  • Paralectotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Linyphia pratensis Wider, 1834, 23 j, 8 f (23969-124)
  • Paralectotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 4j (254, 255, 278, 279) of Linyphia carnica (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Taxonomic references
Linyphia pusilla Sundevall, 1830: 214 (Dmf).
Linyphia fuliginea Blackwall, 1833: 349 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060263].
Theridion signatum Hahn, 1834: 40, f. 125 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060264].
Linyphia pratensis Wider, 1834: 251, pl. 17, f. 8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060265].
Linyphia globosa Wider, 1834: 252, pl. 17, f. 9 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060266].
Theridion ampullaceum Walckenaer, 1837: 336 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060267].
Linyphia pascuensis Walckenaer, 1841: 251 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060268].
Linyphia globosa Walckenaer, 1841: 272 (Dm).
Linyphia pratensis C. L. Koch, 1845: 121, f. 1043-1046 (f).
Linyphia signata C. L. Koch, 1850: 18.
Linyphia pusilla Westring, 1851: 37 (S of Linyphia pratensis).
Linyphia fuliginea Blackwall, 1864a: 216, pl. 15, f. 142 (m, Df).
Linyphia pusilla Menge, 1866: 109, pl. 19, f. 36 (mf).
Linyphia pratensis Ohlert, 1867: 45 (Dm).
Linyphia pusilla Thorell, 1870a: 50 (S of Linyphia signata and Theridion ampullaceum).
Linyphia pusilla O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874d: 329 (S of Linyphia fuliginea).
Linyphia pusilla Simon, 1884a: 241 (S of Linyphia pascuensis).
Linyphia pusilla Keyserling, 1886b: 55, pl. 12, f. 163 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1894: 58, pl. 2, f. 25 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Becker, 1896: 27, pl. 4, f. 2 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Bösenberg, 1901: 70, pl. 6, f. 72 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla quadripunctata Strand, 1903a: 8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011825].
Poeciloneta globosa Strand, 1907e: 227 (S of Poeciloneta variegata; revalidated by Simon, 1929: 740).
Linyphia pusilla Engelhardt, 1910: 64, f. 20 (f).
Linyphia pusilla Comstock, 1912: 398, f. 411-412 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Fedotov, 1912a: 71, f. 13 (f).
Linyphia carnica Caporiacco, 1922: 81, f. 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060105].
Linyphia pusilla Simon, 1929: 638, 744, f. 985-987 (mf, S of Linyphia globosa and L. mandibulata; L. mandibulata revalidated by Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 24).
Lepthyphantes parenzani Caporiacco, 1932b: 95, f. 1 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060112].
Linyphia baltistana Caporiacco, 1934a: 158, pl. 3, f. 10 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060103].
Linyphia pusilla Saito, 1934b: 307, pl. 15, f. 57 (f).
Linyphia pusilla Blauvelt, 1936: 130, pl. 11, f. 75-79 (mf).
Pusillia pusilla Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 26 (T from Linyphia).
Pusillia bonita Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 26, f. 41-42 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060104].
Linyphia pusilla Locket & Millidge, 1953: 400, f. 237D, 239A, 241C (mf).
Pusillia pusilla Hackman, 1954: 10, f. 121 (m).
Linyphia pusilla Wiehle, 1956: 331, f. 545-550 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Saito, 1959: 78, f. 78a-j (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Merrett, 1963b: 376, f. 32A-E (m).
Neolinyphia pusilla Yaginuma, 1966d: 35 (T from Pusillia = Microlinyphia, rejected by van Helsdingen, 1970: 9).
Linyphia pusilla Azheganova, 1968: 67, f. 137-139 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu, 1969: 75, pl. II, f. 6a-b (f).
Microlinyphia pusilla van Helsdingen, 1970: 9, f. 1-8 (mf, S of Linyphia baltistana, L. carnica and Microlinyphia bonita).
Linyphia pusilla Tystshenko, 1971: 9, f. 13, 742 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Miller, 1971: 222, pl. XLII, f. 27, pl. XLIII, f. 1-2 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Palmgren, 1975: 85, f. 20.5-8 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Punda, 1975b: 12, f. 13 (m).
Linyphia pusilla Legotai & Sekerskaya, 1982: 50, f. IV.3-4 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla van Helsdingen, 1982b: 169 (S of Lepthyphantes parenzani).
Microlinyphia pusilla Millidge, 1984b: 239, f. 7 (f).
Microlinyphia pusilla Song, 1987: 1134, f. 95 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Roberts, 1987: 164, f. 86b (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Hu & Wu, 1989: 158, f. 130.1-5 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Legotai & Sekerskaya, 1989: 227, f. LXX.3-4 (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Izmailova, 1989: 77, f. 58 (f).
Microlinyphia pusilla Tanasevitch, 1990: 99, f. 27.12-14 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 216, f. 584 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Millidge, 1993c: 150, f. 42 (f).
Microlinyphia pusilla Roberts, 1995: 369, f. (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Zhao, 1995: 874, f. 413a-e (mf).
Linyphia pusilla Mcheidze, 1997: 300, f. 693-696 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Roberts, 1998: 380, f. (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 187, f. 106M-O, Q (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Hu, 2001: 524, f. 350.1-4 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 143, f. 1583-1585 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Bosmans, 2006a: 143, f. 55-58 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Ono, Matsuda & Saito, 2009: 342, f. 1267-1268 (mf).
Microlinyphia pusilla Nentwig et al., 2019: 39 (S of Microlinyphia pusilla quadripunctata, confirms van Helsdingen, 1970: 11 'colour-variety').
Microlinyphia pusilla Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022: 168, f. 194A-D, 195A-C, 196A-D (mf).
References

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Blauvelt, H. H. (1936). The comparative morphology of the secondary sexual organs of Linyphia and some related genera, including a revision of the group. Festschrift Embrik Strand 2: 81-171, pl. 4-23. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Caporiacco, L. di (1922). Saggio sulla fauna aracnologica della Carnia e regioni limitrofe. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 1: 60-111. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1932b). Aracnidi raccolti in Albania dal dott. Pietro Parenzan. Atti dell'Accademia Scientifica Veneto-Trentino-Istriana (3) 23: 93-98. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1943). New genera and species of North American linyphiid spiders. Bulletin of the University of Utah 33(10): 1-39. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1894). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, pp. 1-151, Pl. I-V. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Comstock, J. H. (1912). The spider book. A manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, with analytical keys for their classification and popular accounts of their habits. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City/New York, 721 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.3163 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Fedotov, D. (1912a). Materialy k faounié paukow Twerskoï gouberny. Berichte der Biologischen Süßwasserstation der Kaiserlichen Naturforschergesellschaft zu St. Petersburg 3: 53-134. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Fuhn, I. E. & Niculescu-Burlacu, F. (1969). Aranee colectate din Transilvania, Banat și Crișana (colectate de Dr. B. Kis, 1962-1965). Comunicari de zoologie, Societatea de Ştiinţe Biologice din Republica Socialista România,Bucureşti 1969: 75-82. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hackman, W. (1954). The spiders of Newfoundland. Acta Zoologica Fennica 79: 1-99. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Helsdingen, P. J. van (1970). A reclassification of the species of Linyphia based on the functioning of the genitalia (Araneida, Linyphiidae), II. Zoologische Verhandelingen 111: 1-86. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Helsdingen, P. J. van (1982b). Quelques remarques sur les Linyphiidae mentionnés par Di Caporiacco. Revue Arachnologique 3: 155-180. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. & Wu, W. G. (1989). Spiders from agricultural regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Shandong University Publishing House, Jinan, 435 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. (2001). Spiders in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. Henan Science and Technology Publishing House, 658 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Irfan, M., Zhang, Z. S. & Peng, X. J. (2022). Survey of Linyphiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) spiders from Yunnan, China. Megataxa 8(1): 1-292. doi:10.11646/megataxa.8.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Izmailova, M. V. (1989). [Fauna of Spiders of South Part of Eastern Siberia]. Irkutsk State University Publishing, 184 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1886b). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 2, 1-295. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Koch, C. L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Heft 5. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, 77 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Legotai, M. V. & Sekerskaya, N. P. (1989). Pauki. In: T. V. Ostrovskaya (ed.) Poleznaya fauna plodovogo sada. Agropromizat, Moscow, pp. 218-227. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Menge, A. (1866). Preussische Spinnen. Erste Abtheilung. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (N.F.) 1: 1-152, pl. 1-28. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Roberts, M. J. (1998). Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saitō, S. (1934b). Spiders from Hokkaido. Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido Imperial University, Sapporo, Japan 33: 267-362. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Simon, E. (1929). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 3e partie. Roret, Paris, 533-772. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1884a). Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, deuxième et troisième partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 180-885, pl. 26-27. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Strand, E. (1903a). Theridiiden und Argiopiden, gesammelt von Mr. H. Seebohm in Krasnojarsk (Sibirien), 1878. Bergens Museums Aarbok 1903(10): 1-8. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Tystshenko, V. P. (1971). Opredelitel' paukov evropejskoj chasti SSSR. Leningrad, 281 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier. Roret, Paris, 682 pp., pl. 1-15. [plates in second pdf] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. [not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Westring, N. (1851). Förteckning öfver de till närvarande tid Kände, i Sverige förekommande Spindlarter, utgörande ett antal af 253, deraf 132 äro nya för svenska Faunan. Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar 2: 25-62. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Wiehle, H. (1956). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae). 28. Familie Linyphiidae – Baldachinspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1-337. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1966d). [A revision of species in "Spiders of Japan in colour"]. Atypus 40: 35-36. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhao, J. Z. (1995). Araneida. In: Natural enemies of cotton pests in China. Wuhan Publishing House, Wuhan, China, pp. 762-1155. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2023-06-13 New taxonomic reference entry Zhao, 1995 n/a
2023-01-14 New taxonomic reference entry Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 n/a
2019-09-17 New taxonomic reference entry Nentwig et al., 2019 n/a
2019-09-17 Species synonymy Nentwig et al., 2019 Microlinyphia pusilla quadripunctata synonymized with Microlinyphia pusilla