Pulchellodromus medius (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)
Description
Male
Tibia I with three pairs of ventral spines. Palp resembles P. ruficapillus, but conductor long and triangular, shape of tibial apophysis different too. Sperm duct loop symmetric, embolus hidden in ventral view, its very tip sometimes visible, embolar base membraneous.
Prosoma length: 1.2-1.4 mm.
Female
Tibia I with three pairs of ventral spines. Epigyne resembles P. ruficapillus and P. pulchellus, but with narrow keel of median septum and copulatory ducts as long as diameter of receptacula. Epigynum with lateral grooves, median septum elevated. Glandular heads globular.
Prosoma length: 1.4-1.7 mm
Additional information
Sub-Mediterranean forests with Pistacia mutica, Quercus pubescens, meadow steppes, steppes, abandoned fields, semi-deserts with Artemisia, mountain stony steppes.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Muster et al. 2007)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Seropian et al. 2024a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Seropian et al. 2024a)
Tibial apophysis, retrolateral view
(Muster et al. 2007)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Muster et al. 2007)
Epigyne
(Ponomarev et al. 2018b)
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
Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 
Kastrygina Z A, Kovblyuk M M (2014) The spider genus Pulchellodromus Wunderlich, 2012 in the Crimea (Aranei: Philodromidae). Arthropoda Selecta 23: 279-283
Logunov D V, Huseynov E F (2008) A faunistic review of the spider family Philodromidae (Aranei) of Azerbaijan. Arthropoda Selecta 17: 117-131
Muster C, Bosmans R, Thaler K (2007) The Philodromus pulchellus-group in the Mediterranean: taxonomic revision, phylogenetic analysis and biogeography (Araneae: Philodromidae). Invertebrate Systematics 21: 39-72
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
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.
Ponomarev A V, Shokhin I V, Terskov E N, Shmatko V Y (2018b) Preliminary data on the fauna of spiders (Aranei) of Taman Peninsula and Tuzla Island (Russia). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 14: 121-129
Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Krammer H-J, Thormann J, Hein N, Karalashvili L, Karalashvili N, Datunashvili A (2024a) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus Barcode of Life (CaBoL) project. Part III. Caucasiana 3: 89-118
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