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Genus: Microbathyphantes van Helsdingen, 1985 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Microbathyphantes palmarius (Marples, 1955)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011791

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Described:

Distribution: Seychelles, Mauritius, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Polynesia

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Syntype: Otago Museum (OM), Dunedin, New Zealand 1m 3f - (Marples, 1955a)
Holotype: Museum of Zoology, Lund University (MZLU), Lund, Sweden m of Microbathyphantes asiaticus - (van Helsdingen, 1985b)
Paratype: Museum of Zoology, Lund University (MZLU), Lund, Sweden 1f of Microbathyphantes asiaticus - (van Helsdingen, 1985b)
Paratype: Naturalis, National Museum of Natural History (RMNH), Leiden, Netherlands 1f of Microbathyphantes asiaticus - (van Helsdingen, 1985b)
Paratype: Museo Civico Storia Naturale G. Doria, Genova (MCSNG), Italy 7m 3f of Microbathyphantes asiaticus - (van Helsdingen, 1985b)
Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 1f of Microbathyphantes asiaticus - (van Helsdingen, 1985b)

Taxonomic References

Linyphia palmaria Marples, 1955a: 492, pl. 58, f. 21-24 (Dmf) Original description

Microbathyphantes asiaticus van Helsdingen, 1985b: 22, f. 11-15 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058712]

Priscipalpus palmarius Millidge in Beatty, Berry & Millidge, 1991: 272, f. 33-36 (mf, T from Linyphia)

Microbathyphantes palmarius Saaristo, 1995a: 43, f. 1A-G (mf, T from Priscipalpus, S of Microbathyphantes asiaticus)

Microbathyphantes palmarius Saaristo, 2010: 80, f. 13.6-10 (mf)

Microbathyphantes palmarius Sherwood et al., 2026b: 616, f. 6A-B (f)

References

Beatty, J. A., Berry, J. W. & Millidge, A. F. (1991). The linyphiid spiders of Micronesia and Polynesia, with notes on distributions and habitats. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8(9): 265-274. -- Show included taxa

Helsdingen, P. J. van (1985b). Araneae: Linyphiidae of Sri Lanka, with a note on Erigonidae. Entomologica Scandinavica, Supplement 30: 13-30. -- Show included taxa

Marples, B. J. (1955a). Spiders from western Samoa. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 42(287): 453-504, pl. 56-59. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1955.tb02217.x -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (1995a). Linyphiid spiders of the granitic islands of Seychelles (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Phelsuma 3: 41-52. -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Cole, N. C., Falconer, S., Ferguson, A., Mootoocurpen, R., Norris, K., Ruhomaun, K., Tatayah, V., Taylor, C. H., Orozco-ter Wengel, P., Fisher, C. & Tercel, M. P. T. G. (2026b). Contributions to the knowledge of Mauritian araneofauna: new records (Araneae: Araneomorphae) and description of a remarkable new species of intertidal trapdoor spider (Araneae: Barychelidae). Arachnology 20(4): 608-622. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2026-03-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood et al., 2026b
2026-03-12	Species distribution update	Sherwood et al., 2026b	Old value
2015-02-17	Species distribution update	Tanasevitch, 2014d	Old value