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

Plesiophantes tanasevitchi Wunderlich, 2011

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012376

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Described:

Distribution: Russia (Caucasus)

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia m - (Wunderlich, 2011)

Taxonomic References

Plesiophantes joosti Tanasevitch, 1987a: 323, f. 38-40 (m; misidentified per Wunderlich, 2011: 296)

Plesiophantes tanasevitchi Wunderlich in Tanasevitch, 1990: 96, f. 25.25 (m, nomen nudum)

Plesiophantes tanasevitchi Wunderlich, 2011: 296 (Dm) Original description

Plesiophantes tanasevitchi Tanasevitch, 2025h: 721, f. 1A-D, 2A-D, 3A-G, 4E (m, Df)

References

Tanasevitch, A. V. (1987a). The linyphiid spiders of the Caucasus, USSR (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 67: 297-383. -- 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

Wunderlich, J. (2011). Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640. [[publ. in April]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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

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
2026-01-06	Species updated	Tanasevitch, 2025h	Old value