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Genus: Tenuiphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Tenuiphantes perseus (van Helsdingen, 1977)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012887

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Described:

Distribution: Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan), Iran

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) m (29198-124) -
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) 1m (34605-124) -

Taxonomic References

Lepthyphantes perseus van Helsdingen in van Helsdingen, Thaler & Deltshev, 1977: 11, f. 6-8, 69 (Dm) Original description

Lepthyphantes mengei Tanasevitch, 1990: 25, 97, f. 26.13-14 (m; misidentified per Tanasevitch, 2026: 131)

Tenuiphantes mengei Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996b: 182, f. 14C (m; misidentified per Tanasevitch, 2009a: 411)

Tenuiphantes perseus Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996b: 182 (T from Lepthyphantes)

Tenuiphantes perseus Tanasevitch, 2009a: 411, f. 76-79, 83-85, 90-94 (m, Df)

Tenuiphantes perseus Tanasevitch, 2026: 131, f. 1, 4-12 (mf)

References

Helsdingen, P. J. van, Thaler, K. & Deltshev, C. (1977). The tenuis group of Lepthyphantes Menge (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 120: 1-54. -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. & Tanasevitch, A. V. (1996b). Redelimitation of the subfamily Micronetinae Hull, 1920 and the genus Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866 with descriptions of some new genera (Aranei, Linyphiidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 83: 163-186. -- 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. (2009a). The linyphiid spiders of Iran (Arachnida, Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 116: 379-420. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.81325 -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2026). New records of forest linyphiid spiders from the Adygea Republic and Krasnodar Krai, northern Caucasus, Russia (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 35(1): 128-134. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.35.1.14 -- 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
2026-03-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Tanasevitch, 1990
2026-03-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Tanasevitch, 2026