There are Italian Alpine flies shown on my web-site -

http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/page43.html

First shows three simple flies that I tied and
the following twelve pages show forty patterns tied by
Walter Bartellini.

This an Italian site, with info from Bartellini.
http://www.pipam.com

I very much agree with Sylvester Nemes. I have tied a few spiders and flymphs with beads but I did not really like them. Nymphs OK. but flymphs and spiders are meant to be fished, at or just below the surface and weighting them with a bead defeats that. There are no rules carved in stone, and if yo...

You actually asked several different questions there, I shall answer 2 of them. 1 The word Spider is often used to refer to the type of soft hackle used in the UK, it originally meant a technique of winding a hackle round a fly , at its head, so that the fibres radiated around the fly. Nothing to d...