World Spider Catalog

Genus: Plesiophantes Heimer, 1981 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Plesiophantes joosti Heimer, 1981

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012374

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012374

Described:

Distribution: Turkey, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia)

External Resources*: araneae - Spiders of Europe | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland m (ARTO-0026824, ex coll. Heimer) - (Heimer, 1981a)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1m (ARTO-0026825, ex coll. Heimer) - (Heimer, 1981a)

Taxonomic References

Plesiophantes joosti Heimer, 1981a: 197, f. 1-5 (Dm) Original description

Plesiophantes joosti Tanasevitch, 1990: 96, f. 25.21 (m)

Plesiophantes joosti Karabulut & Türkeş, 2012: 90, f. 2H-M (m, Df)

Plesiophantes joosti Tanasevitch, 2025h: 719, f. 1E-G, 2F (m)

References

Heimer, S. (1981a). Plesiophantes joosti gen. et sp. n. (Arachnida, Araneae, Linyphiidae). Reichenbachia 19: 197-201. -- Show included taxa

Karabulut, H. & Türkeş, T. (2012). Description of the females of the spiders Plesiophantes joosti Heimer, 1981 and Araeoncus clavatus Tanasevitch, 1987 from Turkey (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Zoology in the Middle East 55: 89-94. doi: 10.1080/09397140.2012.10648923 -- Show included taxa

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. Akademia Nauk, Moscow, pp. 5-114. -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2025h). Notes on the spider genus Plesiophantes Heimer, 1981, with the first description of the female of P. tanasevitchi Wunderlich, 2011 (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Invertebrate Zoology 22(4): 718-726. doi: 10.15298/invertzool.22.4.11 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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

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	Comment
2026-01-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Tanasevitch, 2025h