# Lepthyphantes

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***Lepthyphantes*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [dwarf spiders](/source/Linyphiidae) that was first described by [Anton Menge](/source/Anton_Menge) in 1866.[2]

Its species are found in [Africa](/source/Africa), [Asia](/source/Asia), [Europe](/source/Europe), and [North America](/source/North_America).[1]

## Species

As of October 2025, this genus includes 144 species and one subspecies.[1]

- *[Lepthyphantes abditus](/source/Lepthyphantes_abditus)* Tanasevitch, 1986 – [Russia](/source/Russia) (Caucasus)
- *[Lepthyphantes aberdarensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_aberdarensis)* [Russell-Smith](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Russell-Smith) & [Jocqué](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Jocqu%C3%A9), 1986 – [Kenya](/source/Kenya)
- *[Lepthyphantes aegeus](/source/Lepthyphantes_aegeus)* [Caporiacco](/source/Ludovico_di_Caporiacco), 1948 – [Greece](/source/Greece)
- *[Lepthyphantes aelleni](/source/Lepthyphantes_aelleni)* [Denis](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Denis), 1957 – [Morocco](/source/Morocco)
- *[Lepthyphantes afer](/source/Lepthyphantes_afer)* ([Simon](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Simon), 1913) – [Algeria](/source/Algeria)
- *[Lepthyphantes ajoti](/source/Lepthyphantes_ajoti)* Bosmans, 1991 – Algeria
- *[Lepthyphantes albuloides](/source/Lepthyphantes_albuloides)* ([O. Pickard-Cambridge](/source/Octavius_Pickard-Cambridge), 1872) – [Cyprus](/source/Cyprus), [Israel](/source/Israel)
- *[Lepthyphantes aldersoni](/source/Lepthyphantes_aldersoni)* H. W. [Levi](/source/Herbert_Walter_Levi) & L. R. [Levi](/source/Herbert_Walter_Levi), 1955 – [Canada](/source/Canada)
- *[Lepthyphantes almoravidus](/source/Lepthyphantes_almoravidus)* Barrientos, 2020 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes alpinus](/source/Lepthyphantes_alpinus)* ([Emerton](/source/James_Henry_Emerton), 1882) – Russia (Far East), North America
- *[Lepthyphantes altissimus](/source/Lepthyphantes_altissimus)* Hu, 2001 – [China](/source/China)
- *[Lepthyphantes badhkyzensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_badhkyzensis)* Tanasevitch, 1986 – [Turkmenistan](/source/Turkmenistan)
- *[Lepthyphantes bakeri](/source/Lepthyphantes_bakeri)* Scharff, 1990 – [Tanzania](/source/Tanzania)
- *[Lepthyphantes balearicus](/source/Lepthyphantes_balearicus)* Denis, 1961 – [Spain](/source/Spain) (Balearic Is.)
- *[Lepthyphantes bamboutensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_bamboutensis)* Bosmans, 1986 – [Cameroon](/source/Cameroon)
- *[Lepthyphantes bamilekei](/source/Lepthyphantes_bamilekei)* Bosmans, 1986 – Cameroon
- *[Lepthyphantes baoshanensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_baoshanensis)* Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2023 – China
- *[Lepthyphantes beroni](/source/Lepthyphantes_beroni)* Deltshev, 1979 – Greece
- *[Lepthyphantes beshkovi](/source/Lepthyphantes_beshkovi)* Deltshev, 1979 – Greece (Crete)
- *[Lepthyphantes bhudbari](/source/Lepthyphantes_bhudbari)* [Tikader](/source/B._K._Tikader), 1970 – [India](/source/India)
- *[Lepthyphantes bidentatus](/source/Lepthyphantes_bidentatus)* [Hormiga](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Hormiga) & Ribera, 1990 – Spain
- *[Lepthyphantes biospeleologorum](/source/Lepthyphantes_biospeleologorum)* Barrientos, 2020 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes brahimi](/source/Lepthyphantes_brahimi)* Lecigne & Moutaouakil, 2025 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes brevihamatus](/source/Lepthyphantes_brevihamatus)* Bosmans, 1985 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes brignolianus](/source/Lepthyphantes_brignolianus)* Deltshev, 1979 – Greece (Crete)
- *[Lepthyphantes buensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_buensis)* Bosmans & Jocqué, 1983 – Cameroon, Kenya
- *[Lepthyphantes carlittensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_carlittensis)* Denis, 1952 – [France](/source/France)
- *[Lepthyphantes cavernicola](/source/Lepthyphantes_cavernicola)* Paik & Yaginuma, 1969 – [Korea](/source/Korea)
- *[Lepthyphantes centromeroides](/source/Lepthyphantes_centromeroides)* [Kulczyński](/source/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Kulczy%C5%84ski), 1914 – Balkans, [Romania](/source/Romania), [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine) - *[L. c. carpaticus](/source/Lepthyphantes_centromeroides_carpaticus)* Dumitrescu & Georgescu, 1970 – Romania
- *[Lepthyphantes chamberlini](/source/Lepthyphantes_chamberlini)* [Schenkel](/source/Ehrenfried_Schenkel-Haas), 1950 – Canada, [United States](/source/United_States)
- *[Lepthyphantes chita](/source/Lepthyphantes_chita)* Scharff, 1990 – Tanzania
- *[Lepthyphantes christodeltshev](/source/Lepthyphantes_christodeltshev)* van Helsdingen, 2009 – Greece
- *[Lepthyphantes concavus](/source/Lepthyphantes_concavus)* (Oi, 1960) – [Japan](/source/Japan)
- *[Lepthyphantes cordis](/source/Lepthyphantes_cordis)* Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 – China
- *[Lepthyphantes cruciformis](/source/Lepthyphantes_cruciformis)* Tanasevitch, 1989 – [Kyrgyzstan](/source/Kyrgyzstan)
- *[Lepthyphantes cruentatus](/source/Lepthyphantes_cruentatus)* Tanasevitch, 1987 – [Caucasus](/source/Caucasus) (Russia, Georgia)
- *[Lepthyphantes dilutus](/source/Lepthyphantes_dilutus)* ([Thorell](/source/Tamerlan_Thorell), 1875) – [Sweden](/source/Sweden)
- *[Lepthyphantes dolichoskeles](/source/Lepthyphantes_dolichoskeles)* Scharff, 1990 – Tanzania
- *[Lepthyphantes ellipticus](/source/Lepthyphantes_ellipticus)* Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2025 – China
- *[Lepthyphantes emarginatus](/source/Lepthyphantes_emarginatus)* Fage, 1931 – Algeria
- *[Lepthyphantes encaustus](/source/Lepthyphantes_encaustus)* (Becker, 1879) – Romania
- *[Lepthyphantes ensifer](/source/Lepthyphantes_ensifer)* Barrientos, 2020 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes erigonoides](/source/Lepthyphantes_erigonoides)* Schenkel, 1936 – China
- *[Lepthyphantes escapus](/source/Lepthyphantes_escapus)* Tanasevitch, 1989 – Turkmenistan
- *[Lepthyphantes exvaginatus](/source/Lepthyphantes_exvaginatus)* [Deeleman-Reinhold](/source/Christa_L._Deeleman-Reinhold), 1984 – Algeria
- *[Lepthyphantes fadriquei](/source/Lepthyphantes_fadriquei)* Barrientos, 2020 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes fernandezi](/source/Lepthyphantes_fernandezi)* [Berland](/source/Lucien_Berland), 1924 – [Chile](/source/Chile) (Juan Fernandez Is.)
- *[Lepthyphantes frondeus](/source/Lepthyphantes_frondeus)* Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2025 – China
- *[Lepthyphantes furcillifer](/source/Lepthyphantes_furcillifer)* [Chamberlin](/source/Ralph_Vary_Chamberlin) & Ivie, 1933 – Canada, United States
- *[Lepthyphantes gadesi](/source/Lepthyphantes_gadesi)* Fage, 1931 – Spain
- *[Lepthyphantes hirsutus](/source/Lepthyphantes_hirsutus)* Tanasevitch, 1988 – Russia (Far East)
- *[Lepthyphantes hissaricus](/source/Lepthyphantes_hissaricus)* Tanasevitch, 1989 – [Tajikistan](/source/Tajikistan)
- *[Lepthyphantes howelli](/source/Lepthyphantes_howelli)* Jocqué & Scharff, 1986 – Tanzania
- *[Lepthyphantes hublei](/source/Lepthyphantes_hublei)* Bosmans, 1986 – Cameroon
- *[Lepthyphantes hummeli](/source/Lepthyphantes_hummeli)* Schenkel, 1936 – China
- *[Lepthyphantes hunanensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_hunanensis)* Yin, 2012 – China
- *[Lepthyphantes ibericus](/source/Lepthyphantes_ibericus)* Ribera, 1981 – Spain
- *[Lepthyphantes imazigheni](/source/Lepthyphantes_imazigheni)* Barrientos, 2020 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes impudicus](/source/Lepthyphantes_impudicus)* Kulczyński, 1909 – [Madeira](/source/Madeira)
- *[Lepthyphantes inopinatus](/source/Lepthyphantes_inopinatus)* Locket, 1968 – [DR Congo](/source/DR_Congo)
- *[Lepthyphantes intricatus](/source/Lepthyphantes_intricatus)* (Emerton, 1911) – [Alaska](/source/Alaska), Canada, United States
- *[Lepthyphantes iranicus](/source/Lepthyphantes_iranicus)* Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996 – [Iran](/source/Iran)
- *[Lepthyphantes japonicus](/source/Lepthyphantes_japonicus)* Oi, 1960 – Japan
- *[Lepthyphantes kansuensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_kansuensis)* Schenkel, 1936 – China
- *[Lepthyphantes kilimandjaricus](/source/Lepthyphantes_kilimandjaricus)* [Tullgren](/source/Albert_Tullgren), 1910 – Tanzania
- *[Lepthyphantes kolymensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_kolymensis)* Tanasevitch & Eskov, 1987 – Russia (north-eastern Siberia, Far East)
- *[Lepthyphantes kratochvili](/source/Lepthyphantes_kratochvili)* Fage, 1945 – Greece (Crete)
- *[Lepthyphantes lamellatus](/source/Lepthyphantes_lamellatus)* Barrientos, 2020 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes latrobei](/source/Lepthyphantes_latrobei)* Millidge, 1995 – [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia) (Krakatau)
- *[Lepthyphantes latus](/source/Lepthyphantes_latus)* Paik, 1965 – Korea
- *[Lepthyphantes lebronneci](/source/Lepthyphantes_lebronneci)* Berland, 1935 – Marquesas Islands
- *[Lepthyphantes leknizii](/source/Lepthyphantes_leknizii)* Barrientos, 2020 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes leprosus](/source/Lepthyphantes_leprosus)* (Ohlert, 1865) – Europe, [Turkey](/source/Turkey), Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), [Kazakhstan](/source/Kazakhstan). Introduced to North America, Chile, [Falkland Is](/source/Falkland_Is). [St. Helena](/source/St._Helena)
- *[Lepthyphantes leucocerus](/source/Lepthyphantes_leucocerus)* Locket, 1968 – [Angola](/source/Angola)
- *[Lepthyphantes leucopygius](/source/Lepthyphantes_leucopygius)* Denis, 1939 – France
- *[Lepthyphantes lingsoka](/source/Lepthyphantes_lingsoka)* Tikader, 1970 – India
- *[Lepthyphantes linzhiensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_linzhiensis)* Hu, 2001 – China
- *[Lepthyphantes locketi](/source/Lepthyphantes_locketi)* van Helsdingen, 1977 – Angola, Kenya
- *[Lepthyphantes longihamatus](/source/Lepthyphantes_longihamatus)* Bosmans, 1985 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes longipedis](/source/Lepthyphantes_longipedis)* Tanasevitch, 2014 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes louettei](/source/Lepthyphantes_louettei)* Jocqué, 1985 – [Comoros](/source/Comoros)
- *[Lepthyphantes lundbladi](/source/Lepthyphantes_lundbladi)* Schenkel, 1938 – Madeira
- *[Lepthyphantes luteipes](/source/Lepthyphantes_luteipes)* ([L. Koch](/source/Ludwig_Carl_Christian_Koch), 1879) – Russia (Urals to Far East), Kazakhstan, [Mongolia](/source/Mongolia), China, Japan
- *[Lepthyphantes maculatus](/source/Lepthyphantes_maculatus)* ([Banks](/source/Nathan_Banks), 1900) – United States
- *[Lepthyphantes magnesiae](/source/Lepthyphantes_magnesiae)* [Brignoli](/source/Paolo_Brignoli), 1979 – [Albania](/source/Albania), Greece, Turkey
- *[Lepthyphantes manengoubensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_manengoubensis)* Bosmans, 1986 – Cameroon
- *[Lepthyphantes mauli](/source/Lepthyphantes_mauli)* [Wunderlich](/source/J%C3%B6rg_Wunderlich), 1992 – Madeira
- *[Lepthyphantes maurusius](/source/Lepthyphantes_maurusius)* Brignoli, 1978 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes mbaboensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_mbaboensis)* Bosmans, 1986 – Cameroon
- *[Lepthyphantes meillonae](/source/Lepthyphantes_meillonae)* Denis, 1953 – France
- *[Lepthyphantes messapicus](/source/Lepthyphantes_messapicus)* Caporiacco, 1939 – [Italy](/source/Italy)
- *[Lepthyphantes micromegethes](/source/Lepthyphantes_micromegethes)* Locket, 1968 – Angola
- *[Lepthyphantes microserratus](/source/Lepthyphantes_microserratus)* Petrunkevitch, 1930 – [Puerto Rico](/source/Puerto_Rico)
- *[Lepthyphantes minusculus](/source/Lepthyphantes_minusculus)* Locket, 1968 – DR Congo
- *[Lepthyphantes minutus](/source/Lepthyphantes_minutus)* ([Blackwall](/source/John_Blackwall), 1833) – Europe, Morocco, Algeria (type species)
- *[Lepthyphantes msuyai](/source/Lepthyphantes_msuyai)* Scharff, 1990 – Tanzania
- *[Lepthyphantes natalis](/source/Lepthyphantes_natalis)* Bosmans, 1986 – Cameroon
- *[Lepthyphantes nenilini](/source/Lepthyphantes_nenilini)* Tanasevitch, 1988 – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East)
- *[Lepthyphantes neocaledonicus](/source/Lepthyphantes_neocaledonicus)* Berland, 1924 – [New Caledonia](/source/New_Caledonia)
- *[Lepthyphantes nigropictus](/source/Lepthyphantes_nigropictus)* Bosmans, 1979 – Kenya
- *[Lepthyphantes nitidior](/source/Lepthyphantes_nitidior)* Simon, 1929 – France
- *[Lepthyphantes nodifer](/source/Lepthyphantes_nodifer)* Simon, 1884 – France, Italy, Central Europe, Albania, Romania, Ukraine
- *[Lepthyphantes noeli](/source/Lepthyphantes_noeli)* Barrientos & Brañas, 2024 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes noronhensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_noronhensis)* Rodrigues, Brescovit & Freitas, 2008 – [Brazil](/source/Brazil)
- *[Lepthyphantes notabilis](/source/Lepthyphantes_notabilis)* Kulczyński, 1887 – Europe
- *[Lepthyphantes okuensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_okuensis)* Bosmans, 1986 – Cameroon
- *[Lepthyphantes opilio](/source/Lepthyphantes_opilio)* Simon, 1929 – France
- *[Lepthyphantes palmeroensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_palmeroensis)* Wunderlich, 1992 – [Canary Islands](/source/Canary_Islands)
- *[Lepthyphantes patulus](/source/Lepthyphantes_patulus)* Locket, 1968 – Angola
- *[Lepthyphantes pennatus](/source/Lepthyphantes_pennatus)* Scharff, 1990 – Tanzania
- *[Lepthyphantes peramplus](/source/Lepthyphantes_peramplus)* (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – India
- *[Lepthyphantes perfidus](/source/Lepthyphantes_perfidus)* Tanasevitch, 1985 – Central Asia
- *[Lepthyphantes phallifer](/source/Lepthyphantes_phallifer)* Fage, 1931 – Spain
- *[Lepthyphantes phialoides](/source/Lepthyphantes_phialoides)* Scharff, 1990 – Tanzania
- *[Lepthyphantes pieltaini](/source/Lepthyphantes_pieltaini)* Machado, 1940 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes rainieri](/source/Lepthyphantes_rainieri)* Emerton, 1926 – Canada
- *[Lepthyphantes rimicola](/source/Lepthyphantes_rimicola)* [Lawrence](/source/Reginald_Frederick_Lawrence), 1964 – [South Africa](/source/South_Africa)
- *[Lepthyphantes rossitsae](/source/Lepthyphantes_rossitsae)* Dimitrov, 2018 – Turkey
- *[Lepthyphantes rudrai](/source/Lepthyphantes_rudrai)* Tikader, 1970 – India
- *[Lepthyphantes ruwenzori](/source/Lepthyphantes_ruwenzori)* Jocqué, 1985 – DR Congo, [Uganda](/source/Uganda)
- *[Lepthyphantes sasi](/source/Lepthyphantes_sasi)* Barrientos, 2020 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes saurensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_saurensis)* Eskov, 1995 – Kazakhstan
- *[Lepthyphantes serratus](/source/Lepthyphantes_serratus)* Oi, 1960 – Japan
- *[Lepthyphantes silvamontanus](/source/Lepthyphantes_silvamontanus)* Bosmans & Jocqué, 1983 – Cameroon
- *[Lepthyphantes simiensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_simiensis)* Bosmans, 1978 – [Ethiopia](/source/Ethiopia)
- *[Lepthyphantes soumiae](/source/Lepthyphantes_soumiae)* Barrientos, 2021 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes speculae](/source/Lepthyphantes_speculae)* Denis, 1959 – [Lebanon](/source/Lebanon)
- *[Lepthyphantes stramineus](/source/Lepthyphantes_stramineus)* (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – [Pakistan](/source/Pakistan)
- *[Lepthyphantes strinatii](/source/Lepthyphantes_strinatii)* Hubert, 1970 – [Tunisia](/source/Tunisia)
- *[Lepthyphantes styx](/source/Lepthyphantes_styx)* Wunderlich, 2011 – Canary Islands
- *[Lepthyphantes subtilis](/source/Lepthyphantes_subtilis)* Tanasevitch, 1989 – Kyrgyzstan
- *[Lepthyphantes tamara](/source/Lepthyphantes_tamara)* Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – United States
- *[Lepthyphantes taza](/source/Lepthyphantes_taza)* Tanasevitch, 2014 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes todillus](/source/Lepthyphantes_todillus)* Simon, 1929 – France
- *[Lepthyphantes turanicus](/source/Lepthyphantes_turanicus)* Tanasevitch & Fet, 1986 – Turkmenistan
- *[Lepthyphantes turbatrix](/source/Lepthyphantes_turbatrix)* (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – North America, [Greenland](/source/Greenland)
- *[Lepthyphantes ultimus](/source/Lepthyphantes_ultimus)* Tanasevitch, 1989 – Tajikistan
- *[Lepthyphantes umbratilis](/source/Lepthyphantes_umbratilis)* ([Keyserling](/source/Eugen_von_Keyserling), 1886) – United States
- *[Lepthyphantes vanstallei](/source/Lepthyphantes_vanstallei)* Bosmans, 1986 – Cameroon
- *[Lepthyphantes venereus](/source/Lepthyphantes_venereus)* Simon, 1913 – Algeria
- *[Lepthyphantes vividus](/source/Lepthyphantes_vividus)* Denis, 1955 – Lebanon
- *[Lepthyphantes younnesi](/source/Lepthyphantes_younnesi)* Barrientos & Gerace, 2024 – Morocco
- *[Lepthyphantes yueluensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_yueluensis)* Yin, 2012 – China
- *[Lepthyphantes yushuensis](/source/Lepthyphantes_yushuensis)* Hu, 2001 – China

## References

1. ["Gen. *Lepthyphantes* Menge, 1866"](https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1397). World Spider Catalog. [doi:10.24436/2](https://doi.org/10.24436/2). Retrieved 2025-10-18.

1. Menge, A. (1866). "*Preussische Spinnen. Erste Abtheilung*". *Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig*. **1**: 1–152.

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