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Tetragnathidae  Menge, 1866 / Pachygnatha  Sundevall, 1823   10 species

Pachygnatha clerckoides  Wunderlich, 1985

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014027

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Description
Male

Prosoma red-brown, median part and margin partly darkebed. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on promargin and 4 teeth on retromargin, apical-frontal apophysis pointed and straight. Sternum medium-brown. Legs yellow. Opisthosoma: dorsum with dark grey folium, pairs of white spots, sides with a white longitudinal band, venter with a pair of white longitudinal bands.

Body length male: 3.3-4.3 mm
Female

Colouration as in males, except dorsal folium slightly lighter.

 

Body length female: 4.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Iran
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1985b)

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male Chelicera, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 1985b)

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male Cheliceral apophysis, frontal view
(Wunderlich 1985b)

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female Palpal claw
(Wunderlich 1985b)

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female Copulatory opening, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1985b)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 1985b)

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.

Albania   (Komnenov, 2018) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev et al., 2021b; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Komnenov M (2018) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the floodplains of the Vjosa river, south Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 197-212 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

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. pdf

Ponomarev A V, Alekseev S K, Komarov Y E, Shmatko V Y (2021b) Spiders (Aranei) of the Terek River valley in Mozdok District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 17: 351-374 pdf

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 pdf

Wunderlich J (1985b) Pachygnatha clerckoides n. sp. aus Jugoslawien (Arachnida: Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 65: 325-328 pdf

Updates
10-12-2021 Distribution insert Detail
10-12-2021 Distribution update Detail
02-12-2018 Distribution update Detail
11-11-2015 Image insert