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Genus: Mughiphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1999 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Mughiphantes tienschangensis (Tanasevitch, 1986)

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Distribution: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China

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Holotype: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg (ZISP), Russia m - (Tanasevitch, 1986)
Paratype: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg (ZISP), Russia 1m 2f - (Tanasevitch, 1986)
Paratype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia 2m 6f - (Tanasevitch, 1986)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 2m 2f (32157) - (Tanasevitch, 1986)

Taxonomic References

Lepthyphantes tienschangensis Tanasevitch, 1986: 149, f. 35-42 (Dmf) Original description

Mughiphantes tienschangensis Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1999: 146 (T from Lepthyphantes)

Mughiphantes tienshangensis Saaristo, in Marusik & Koponen, 2008a: 8, pl. 1 (m)

Mughiphantes tienschangensis Tanasevitch, 2026d: 399, f. 1-3 (m)

References

Marusik, Y. M. & Koponen, S. (2008a). Obituary. Michael Ilmari Saaristo (1938-2008). Arthropoda Selecta 17: 4-16. -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. & Tanasevitch, A. V. (1999). Reclassification of the mughi-group of the genus Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866 (sensu lato) (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Micronetinae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 86: 139-147. -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. (1986). New and little-known species of Lepthyphantes Menge 1866 from the Soviet Union (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 67(1/3): 137-172. -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2026d). On linyphiid spiders from the Dzungarian Alatau and Tarbagatay mountains, Kazakhstan (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 35(3): 396-400. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.35.3.08 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-09-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Tanasevitch, 2026d
2026-09-29	Species distribution update	Tanasevitch, 2026d	Old value