Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Tegenaria  Latreille, 1804   109 species

Tegenaria pontica  Charitonov, 1947

Description
Male

Male unknown.

Female

Prosoma length: 4.15 mm, prosoma width: 2.9 mm.

Additional information

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: The finding of T. pontica in Georgia is most likely to be erroneous (Ponomarev et al., 2024)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Russia (Caucasus), Georgia?
Phenology
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Figures
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.

Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Mikhailov, 2022) |||
References

Charitonov D E (1947) Spiders and harvestspiders from the caves of the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. Byulleten Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody (N.S., Biol.) 52: 15-28 pdf

Deltshev C, Barjadze S, Maghradze E (2023) On the cave spiders of Georgia with description of a new blind Centromerus (Arachnida: Araneae). Historia Naturalis Bulgarica 45: 283-292 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2022) Progress in the study of the spider fauna (Aranei) of Russia and neighbouring regions: a 2020 update. Invertebrate Zoology 19: 295-304, Supplements 1.01-1.15, 2.01-2.24. pdf

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, Mikhailov K G, Shmatko V Y (2024a) Review of spiders of the genus Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 (Aranei: Agelenidae) of Ciscaucasia and the Russian Caucasus. III. New data on fauna and distribution, with material from neighbouring regions. Arthropoda Selecta 33: 273-287 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

Updates
16-05-2024 Datasheet update Detail
15-11-2023 Distribution update Detail
15-11-2023 Image insert
01-12-2013 Distribution update Detail
29-10-2013 Datasheet update Detail
29-10-2013 Image insert