araneae - Pseudomogrus caspicus

Description

Male

Prosoma dark brown to almost black, densely covered with white and red scales. Clypeus yellow-orange, covered with white hairs. Sternum dark brown, densely covered with white hairs. Chelicerae dark brown, basal 2/3 covered with white hairs. Legs: Coxae and trochanter light yellow, remaining segments mottled with brown, all segments densely covered with white hairs. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark grey, without visible pattern, covered with white hairs, sides and venter grey-yellow. Spinnerets yellow-brown.

Female

Colouration somewhat lighter than in males, prosoma and opisthosoma with well marked colour patterns, venter yellow. Pedipalps yellow.

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2024): Russia (Europe), Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan

Phenology



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Figures

Pedipalp, prolateral-ventral view
(Logunov & Marusik 2003)

Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Logunov & Marusik 2003)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov & Marusik 2003)

Epigyne
(Logunov & Marusik 2003)

Vulva
(Logunov & Marusik 2003)

Habitus
(Logunov & Marusik 2003)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

References

Logunov D V, Marusik YM (2003) A revision of the genus Yllenus Simon, 1868 (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae). KMK Scientific Press Moscow, 168 pp

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2

Pseudomogrus caspicus (Ponomarev, 1978)