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Description of Tenuiphantes tenuis
Physical Characteristics
Markings and colour variable.
Female 2 to 4.5 mm.
Abdomen brown to black brown with black stripes or spots and marbled white spots along the sides and on top. These white spots can sometimes be greatly reduced or completely absent.
Carapace dark brown to black.
Legs yellow-brown.
Palps brown to black-brown.
Male 2 to 3.5 mm.
Same variable colour and pattern as the female. Abdomen and carapace sometimes almost entirely black.
Habitat
Various habitats.
Distribution
Common in the whole of Europe.
Period
All year.