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Genus: Agyneta Hull, 1911 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

World Spider Catalog Archive Version 26, generated on 2026-02-02

Agyneta ressli (Wunderlich, 1973)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011708

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Described:

Distribution: Alps (France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy), North Macedonia, Greece

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Agyneta ressli Wunderlich, 1973, 1 m (28790-124) -
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz (SMNG), Görlitz, Germany (data base search of type material, 27.03.2019) m (6643-36260) -
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Agyneta ressli Wunderlich, 1973, 1 m, 2 f (28791-124) -

Taxonomic References

Meioneta ressli Wunderlich, 1973b: 414, f. 21-30 (Dmf) Original description

Meioneta ressli van Helsdingen, 1982b: 158, f. 1-4 (m)

Meioneta ressli Thaler, 1983a: 145, f. 77 (m)

Agyneta ressli Tanasevitch, 1990: 94, f. 13.31-32 (m)

Meioneta ressli Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 212, f. 571 (mf)

Meioneta ressli Thaler, Buchar & Kurka, 1997: 389, f. 5-6, 8, 11 (m)

Agyneta ressli Saaristo & Koponen, 1998: 571, f. 4D-E (m)

Meioneta ressli Muster, 1999: 150, f. 1-4, 9-13, 18-20 (m)

Agyneta alpica Tanasevitch, 2000a: 211, f. 82-89 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011597]

Agyneta ressli Tanasevitch, 2000a: 211, f. 69-70, 78-81 (m)

Meioneta alpica Muff et al., 2007: 20, f. 3b-i (m)

Meioneta ressli Muff et al., 2007: 20, f. 3a (m)

Agyneta ressli Dupérré, 2013: 16 (T from Meioneta)

Agyneta alpica Michaud & Forêt, 2018: 11, f. 2, 3, 4A-B (m)

Agyneta cf. alpica Breitling, 2020: 343, f. 16A-B (m)

Agyneta ressli Hänggi & Raaflaub, 2026: 18, f. 1-9 (m, S of Agyneta alpica)

References

Breitling, R. (2020). South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18(4): 333-362. doi: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.333 -- Show included taxa

Dupérré, N. (2013). Taxonomic revision of the spider genera Agyneta and Tennesseelum (Araneae, Linyphiidae) of North America north of Mexico with a study of the embolic division within Micronetinae sensu Saaristo & Tanasevitch 1996. Zootaxa 3674: 1-189. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3674.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Hänggi, A. & Raaflaub, D. (2026). Agyneta alpica Tanasevitch, 2000 is a junior synonym of Agyneta ressli (Wunderlich, 1973). Revue Arachnologique (2) 12(2025): 17-21. [[not published before February]] -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- Show included taxa

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

Michaud, A. & Forêt, J. (2018). Découverte en France d'Agyneta alpica Tanasevitch, 2000 et de Mughiphantes baebleri (Lessert, 1910) (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 5: 11-13. -- Show included taxa

Muff, P., Schmidt, M. H., Frick, H., Nentwig, W. & Kropf, C. (2007). Spider (Arachnida: Araneae) distribution across the timberline in the Swiss Central Alps (Alp Flix, Grisons) and three morphologically variable species. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 34: 16-24. doi: 10.5431/aramit3404 -- Show included taxa

Muster, C. (1999). Fünf für Deutschland neue Spinnentiere aus dem bayerischen Alpenraum (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 86: 149-158. -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. & Koponen, S. (1998). A review of northern Canadian spiders of the genus Agyneta (Araneae, Linyphiidae), with descriptions of two new species. Canadian Journal of Zoology 76(3): 566-583. doi: 10.1139/z97-217 -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. (1990). The spider family Linyphiidae in the fauna of the Caucasus (Arachnida, Aranei). Akademia Nauk, Moscow, pp. 5-114. -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2000a). On some Palaearctic species of the spider genus Agyneta Hull, 1911, with description of four new species (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 8: 201-213. -- Show included taxa

Thaler, K. (1983a). Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde in Nordtirol (Österreich) und Nachbarländern: Deckennetzspinnen, Linyphiidae (Arachnida: Aranei). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 63: 135-167. -- Show included taxa

Thaler, K., Buchar, J. & Kůrka, A. (1997). A new species of Linyphiidae (Araneae) from the sudeto-carpathian range (Czech Republic and Slovakia). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 61: 389-394. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1973b). Zur Spinnenfauna Deutschlands, XV. Weitere seltene und bisher unbekannte Arten sowie Anmerkungen zur Taxonomie und Synonymie (Arachnida: Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 54: 405-428. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-02-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Hänggi & Raaflaub, 2026