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Genus: Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Lepthyphantes alpinus (Emerton, 1882)

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Described:

Distribution: Russia (Far North East), Alaska, Canada, USA

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Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA mm ff - (Zorsch, 1937)

Taxonomic References

Bathyphantes alpina Emerton, 1882: 70, pl. 22, f. 4 (Dmf) Original description

Linyphia alpina Marx, 1890a: 527

Lepthyphantes alpina Zorsch, 1937: 868, pl. 2, f. 24-31 (mf)

Lepthyphantes alpinus Tanasevitch, 1988a: 341, f. 32-33 (m)

Lepthyphantes alpinus Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 140, f. 1550-1552 (mf)

References

Emerton, J. H. (1882). New England spiders of the family Theridiidae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 1-86. -- Show included taxa

Marx, G. (1890a). Catalogue of the described Araneae of temperate North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 12: 497-594. -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. (1988a). New species of Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866 from the Soviet Far East, with notes on the Siberian fauna of this genus (Aranei, Linyphiidae). Spixiana 10(3, 1987): 335-343. [[publ. 1988, March 10 - see last page of the pdf]] -- Show included taxa

Zorsch, H. M. (1937). The spider genus Lepthyphantes in the United States. American Midland Naturalist 18(5): 856-898. doi: 10.2307/2420422 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-03-30	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon	Tanasevitch, 1988a		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to other taxon