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Genus: Sintula Simon, 1884 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Sintula furcifer (Simon, 1912)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012647

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Described:

Distribution: Portugal, Spain, France, Morocco, Algeria

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Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m - (Bosmans, 1991a)

Taxonomic References

Microneta furcifera Simon, 1912b: 418 (Dm) Original description

Sintula furcifer Simon, 1926: 529

Sintula furcifer Denis, 1967b: 385, f. 23-28 (m, Df)

Sintula furcifer Bosmans, 1991a: 104, f. 1-7 (mf)

Sintula furcifer Guerbaa et al., 2024: 9, f. 3A-B, 4-7 (mf)

Sintula furcifer Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025: 137, f. 92N-O (f)

Sintula furcifer Tanasevitch, 2025g: 500, f. 2E (f)

References

Bosmans, R. (1991a). Le genre Sintula Simon en Afrique du Nord (Araneae, Linyphiidae): Etudes sur les Linyphiidae nord-africaines, VI. Revue Arachnologique 9: 103-117. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1967b). Notes sur les érigonides. XXXVI. Le genre Sintula Simon. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 103: 369-390. -- Show included taxa

Guerbaa, K., Oger, P., Revers, F. & Acloque, A. (2024). Sintula furcifer (Simon, 1912) (Araneae, Linyphiidae) nouveau pour la faune de France. Revue Arachnologique (2) 10(2023): 9-11. [[publ. end of Jan. 2024]] -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S., Moutaouakil, S. & Lips, J. (2025). Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1912b). Araneae. In: Jeannel, R. & Peyerimhof, P. de (eds.). Récoltes entomologiques dans les Beni-Snassen (Maroc orientale). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 80(3, 2011): 414-419. [[publ. in Feb. 1912]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1926). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 2e partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 309-532. -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2025g). On the spider genus Sintula Simon, 1884 in Israel (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Invertebrate Zoology 22(3): 498-504. doi: 10.15298/invertzool.22.3.09 -- 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
2025-09-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Tanasevitch, 2025g
2025-04-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025
2024-01-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Guerbaa et al., 2024
2024-01-29	Species distribution update	Guerbaa et al., 2024	Old value
2021-01-04	Species updated		Old value	Error corrected