Nearctic States & Provinces: AB BC NL HI MA NY OH OR WA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/12897
Tenuiphantes tenuis (Blackwall, 1852)
FAMILY: LINYPHIIDAE Blackwall, 1859
Genus: Tenuiphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996
Species: Tenuiphantes tenuis (Blackwall, 1852)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
dwarf & sheetweb weavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: Europe, North Africa (elsewhere, introduced)
Nearctic States & Provinces:
AB BC NL HI MA NY OH OR WA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
wandering sheet/tangle weavers
‡Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280.
Recorded Habitats:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Seasonality of Specimen Records:
Image(s) of Habitus:
Credit: Pfeiffer, Kevin
Details About Males
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of External Male Genitalia:
Credit: Pfeiffer, Kevin
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Linyphia pusilla Blackwall 1834 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Blackwall 1852 |
| Linyphia tenuis Blackwall 1852 |
| Tenuiphantes tenuis Blackwall 1852 |
| Linyphia tenuis Blackwall 1864 |
| Lepthyphantes tenebricola Simon 1884 |
| Lepthyphantes tenebricola Chyzer & Kulczynski 1894 |
| Lepthyphantes tenebricola Becker 1896 |
| Lepthyphantes tenebricola Bösenberg 1901 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Lessert 1910 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Simon 1929 |
| Lepthyphantes falteronensis Caporiacco 1936 |
| Lepthyphantes foliatus Denis 1945 |
| Lepthyphantes aspromontis Caporiacco 1949 |
| Lepthyphantes sanfilippoi Caporiacco 1950 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Locket & Millidge 1953 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Wiehle 1956 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis van Helsdingen 1963 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Miller 1971 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Tyschchenko 1971 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Wanless 1971 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Wanless 1973 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Palmgren 1975 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis van Helsdingen, Thaler & Deltshev 1977 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Bosmans 1985 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Roberts 1987 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Millidge 1988 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Tanasevitch 1990 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Heimer & Nentwig 1991 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Hormiga 1994 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Roberts 1995 |
| Tenuiphantes tenuis Saaristo & Tanasevitch 1996 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Roberts 1998 |
| Lepthyphantes tenuis Hormiga 2000 |
| Tenuiphantes tenuis Merrett 2004 |
Taxonomic References†
Becker, L. 1896. Les arachnides de Belgique. Ann. Mus. Roy. Hist. nat. Belg. 12: 1-3788.
Blackwall, J. 1864. A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. London, Ray Society, 2: 175-384.
Blackwall, J. 1852. A catalogue of British spiders including remarks on their structure, function, economy and systematic arrangement. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (2) 9: 15-22, 268-275, 464-471; 10: 182-189, 248-253.
Blackwall, J. 1834. Characters of some undescribed species of Araneidae. Lond. Ebinb. Phil. Mag. J. Sci. (3) 5: 50-53.
Bösenberg, W. 1901. Die Spinnen Deutschlands. I. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(1): 1-96.
Bosmans, R. 1985. Les genres Troglohyphantes Joseph et Lepthyphantes Menge en Afrique du Nord (Araneae, Linyphiidae): Études sur les Linyphiidae nord-africaines, III. Revue arachnol. 6: 135-178.
Caporiacco, L. di. 1950. Aracnidi cavernicoli liguri. Annali Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Giacomo Doria 64: 101-110.
Caporiacco, L. di. 1949. Una piccola raccolta aracnologica dei monti di Calabria. Atti Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Trieste 17: 132-136.
Caporiacco, L. di. 1936. Saggio sulla fauna aracnologica del Casentino, Val d'Arno Superiore e Alta Val Tiberina. Festschr. Strand 1: 326-369.
Chyzer, C. & W. Kulczynski. 1894. Araneae Hungariae. Budapest, 2: 1-151.
Denis, J. 1945. Descriptions d'araignées nord-africaines. Bull. Soc. Hist. nat. Toulouse 79: 41-57.
Heimer, S. & W. Nentwig. 1991. Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp.
Helsdingen, P. J. van, K. Thaler & C. Deltshev. 1977. The tenuis group of Lepthyphantes Menge (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Tijdschr. Ent. 120: 1-54.
Helsdingen, P. J. van. 1963. The Micryphantidae and Linyphiidae (Araneida) of the Netherlands, with some notes on the genus Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866. Zool. Verh. Leiden 62: 1-38.
Hormiga, G. 2000. Higher level phylogenetics of erigonine spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae). Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 609: 1-160.
Hormiga, G. 1994. Cladistics and the comparative morphology of linyphiid spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Linyphiidae). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 111: 1-71.
Lessert, R. de. 1910. Catalogue des invertebres de la Suisse. Fasc. 3, Araignées. Musée d'histoire naturelle de Genève, pp. 1-635.
Locket, G. H. & A. F. Millidge. 1953. British spiders. Ray Society, London, 2: 1-449.
Merrett, P. 2004. Notes on the revision of British Lepthyphantes species. Newsl. Br. arachnol. Soc. 100: 20-21.
Miller, F. 1971. Pavouci-Araneida. Klíc zvíreny CSSR 4: 51-306.
Millidge, A. F. 1988. The spiders of New Zealand: Part VI. Family Linyphiidae. Otago Mus. Bull. 6: 35-67.
Palmgren, P. 1975. Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens VI: Linyphiidae 1. Fauna fenn. 28: 1-102.
Roberts, M. J. 1998. Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.
Roberts, M. J. 1995. Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.
Roberts, M. J. 1987. The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2: Linyphiidae and check list. Harley Books, Colchester, England.
Saaristo, M. I. & A. V. Tanasevitch. 1996. Redelimitation of the subfamily Micronetinae Hull, 1920 and the genus Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866 with descriptions of some new genera (Aranei, Linyphiidae). Ber. nat.-med. Verein Innsbruck 83: 163-186.
Simon, E. 1929. Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae; 3e partie. Paris, 6: 533-772.
Simon, E. 1884. Les arachnides de France. Paris, 5: 180-885.
Tanasevitch, A. V. 1990. The spider family Linyphiidae in the fauna of the Caucasus (Arachnida, Aranei). in B. R. Striganova (ed.), Fauna nazemnykh bespozvonochnykh Kavkaza. Moscow, Akaedemia Nauk, pp. 5-114.
Tyschchenko, V. P. 1971. Opredelitel' paukov evropejskoj casti SSSR. Leningrad, pp. 1-281.
Wanless, F. R. 1973. The female genitalia of British spiders of the genus Lepthyphantes (Linyphiidae) II. Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 2: 127-142.
Wanless, F. R. 1971. The female genitalia of the spider genus Lepthyphantes (Linyphiidae). Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 2: 20-28.
Wiehle, H. 1956. Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae). 28. Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen. Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: i-viii, 1-337.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/LINYPHIIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Tenuiphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996‡‡
T. alacris (Blackwall, 1853) ...............Palearctic
T. cracens (Zorsch, 1937) ...............North America
T. cristatus (Menge, 1866) ...............Palearctic
T. flavipes (Blackwall, 1854) ...............Palearctic
T. mengei (Kulczynski, 1887) ...............Palearctic
T. nigriventris (L. Koch, 1879) ...............Holarctic
T. sabulosus (Keyserling, 1886) ...............North America
T. tenebricola (Wider, 1834) ...............Palearctic
T. zebra (Emerton, 1882) ...............North America
T. zelatus (Zorsch, 1937) ...............North America
T. zibus (Zorsch, 1937) ...............North America
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution