Posted by Juergen Peters on 23-06-2017 17:28
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Hello Vladimiro,
vldim wrote:In Fauna Europaea I find 63 (!) species for the genus Lepthyphantes
the large genus
Lepthyphantes has been divided into many new genera. I don't know how Fauna Europea reflects that already (by the way: I only find only 25
Lepthyphantes species in FE for the whole of Europe). According to the german SpiderWiki only 7 species occur in Italy (mainland).
Here in Germany there are only 4 species, and only 2 (
L. leprosus and
minor) live regularly in buildings. The other 2 additionally are very small animals (1,8-2 mm).
The additional species in Italy are
L. agnellus (1.8-2.0 mm),
L. garganicus (2.2 mm) - I think, these are too small for your animal - and
L. messapicus (5 mm). But I don't know anything about this last species (occurance/habitats, colouration).
But, in your opinion, Lepthyphantes sp. is correct , or the genus too is not sure?
It looks a lot like
Leptyphanthes. Most other "
-phantes" are smaller and do not occur in houses. And the pale colouration matches
L. leprosus very well. But I am no expert at all... Perhaps you can put the photos to
http://forum.eu-a...tion=forum. It is a german forum, but questions in English are also welcome.