Centromerus brevipalpus (Menge, 1866)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009718

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Described:

Distribution: Europe, Kazakhstan


Type Repository Provide information
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 2f (L 224) of Centromerus fagicola - (Bosmans, 2015)
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Centromerus brevivulvatus F. Dahl, 1912, (29681/4,13818) -
Taxonomic References
Erigone aequalis Westring, 1851: 44 (m; misidentified per Thorell, 1871a: 136, not Micryphantes aequalis C. L. Koch, 1841 = Macrargus rufus)
Erigone aequalis Westring, 1861: 275 (m; misidentified per Thorell, 1871a: 136)
Bathyphantes brevipalpus Menge, 1866: 122, pl. 22, f. 47A, C-F (Dm; f see Macrargus rufus) Original description
Erigone brevipalpis Thorell, 1871a: 136 (unjustified emendation)
Linyphia brevipalpis Fickert, 1876: 54
Erigone brevipalpis Dahl, 1883: 50 (Df)
Tmeticus brevipalpus Simon, 1884a: 415, f. 194 (m, T from Erigone)
Tmeticus illibatus Simon, 1884a: 416, f. 195 (m; misidentified per Simon, 1929: 720; f see Agyneta innotabilis)
Centromerus aequalis Dahl, 1886: 74 (f; misidentified sensu Thorell, 1871a: 136)
Centromerus illibatus Dahl, 1886: 75 (m; misidentified sensu Simon, 1929: 720)
Centromerus brevipalpus Bösenberg, 1902: 135, pl. 12, f. 177 (mf)
Centromerus brevivulvatus Dahl, 1912b: 614 (new name for Centromerus aequalis sensu Westring) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062943]
Centromerus brevipalpis Simon, 1929: 552, 720 (S of Centromerus brevivulvatus)
Centromerus fagicola Denis, 1948b: 245, f. 12-13 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009737]
Centromerus brevipalpis Bonnet, 1956: 989 (accepting Thorell, 1871a and Simon, 1929)
Centromerus aequalis Wiehle, 1956: 54, f. 82-86 (mf; attributes to Westring, 1851, but that is not an available name)
Centromerus aequalis Denis, 1958a: 7, f. 4 (f)
Centromerus aequalis Miller, 1958b: 88, pl. II, f. 1, pl. III, f. 6, pl. IV, f. 12 (mf)
Centromerus aequalis Tystshenko, 1971: 224, f. 719 (f)
Centromerus aequalis Miller, 1971: 246, pl. I, f. 13, pl. XLIX, f. 16-17 (mf)
Centromerus aequalis Locket, Millidge & Merrett, 1974: 110, f. 70A-B (mf)
Centromerus aequalis Palmgren, 1975: 14, f. 2.11-14 (mf)
Centromerus aequalis Roberts, 1987: 128, f. 65c (mf)
Centromerus aequalis Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 126, f. 362 (mf)
Centromerus aequalis Saaristo in Marusik & Koponen, 2008a: 11, pl. 4 (m)
Centromerus brevivulvatus Dupérré, 2013: 7, f. 57 (m; accepting the name used since Platnick's WSC v. 2.0/2001)
Centromerus brevipalpus Bosmans, 2015: 26 (accepting Thorell, 1871a, Simon, 1929 and Bonnet, 1956, S of Centromerus fagicola)
References

Bonnet, P. (1956). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (2me partie: C-F). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 919-1926. -- Show included taxa

Bösenberg, W. (1902). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. II-IV. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(2-4): 97-384, pl. 9-36. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.6508 -- Show included taxa

Bosmans, R. (2015). Sur quelques espèces du genre Centromerus Simon, 1884 de France et d’Espagne (Aranaeae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 2: 23-27. -- Show included taxa

Dahl, F. (1883). Analytische Bearbeitung der Spinnen Norddeutschlands mit einer anatomisch-biologischen Einleitung. Schriften des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Schleswig-Holstein 5: 13-88. -- Show included taxa

Dahl, F. (1886). Monographie der Erigone-Arten im Thorell' schen. Sinne, nebst anderen Beiträgen zur Spinnenfauna SchleswigHolsteins. Schriften des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Schleswig-Holstein 6: 65-102. -- Show included taxa

Dahl, F. (1912b). Über die Fauna des Plagefenn-Gebietes. In: Conwentz, H. (ed.) Das Plagefenn bei Chorin. Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin, pp. 339-638 (Araneae, 575-622). -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1948b). Araignées de France. II. Araignées des Monts Dore. Revue Française d'Entomologie 15: 236-249. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1958a). Quelques micro-araignées de Belgique. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 34(29): 1-14. -- 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

Fickert, C. (1876). Verzeichniss der schlesischen Spinnen. Zeitschrift für Entomologie, Breslau (N. F.) 5: 46-76. -- Show included taxa

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

Locket, G. H., Millidge, A. F. & Merrett, P. (1974). British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp. -- Show included taxa

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

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

Miller, F. (1958b). Beitrag zur Kenntnis der tschechoslovakischen Spinnenarten aus der Gattung Centromerus Dahl. Časopis Československé Společnosti Entomologické 55: 71-91. -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. -- Show included taxa

Palmgren, P. (1975). Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens VI. Linyphiidae 1 (Die Linyphiinae und Linyphiinae-ähnlichen Micryphantinae). Fauna Fennica 28: 1-102. -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1987). The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2: Linyphiidae and check list. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp. -- Show included taxa

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

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. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1871a). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part II. C. J. Lundström, Uppsala, pp. 97-228. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.69282 -- Show included taxa

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

Westring, N. (1861). Araneae svecicae. Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar 7: 1-615. [[publ. also as separate in 1862]] -- Show included taxa

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

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2015-08-19 New taxonomic reference entry Bosmans, 2015
2015-08-19 Species synonymy Bosmans, 2015 Centromerus fagicola synonymized with Centromerus brevipalpus

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