Plesiophantes simplex Tanasevitch, 1987
Description
Male
Prosoma brownish yellow, with broad darker margin. Posterior median eyes separated by their radius. Sternum brownish-yellowish. Legs yellow, very long. Opisthosma pale dorsally, with several symmetric grey spots and dorso-lateral stripes.
Body length male: 4.0 mmFemale
Opisthosoma with two broad grey stripes ventrally, with a broad dark stripe laterally and dorsally with grey spots, becoming transverse bands at posterior half of opisthosoma. Colouration as in males.
Body length female: 3.3 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Tanasevitch 1987a)
Pedipalp
(Tanasevitch 1987a)
Embolic division
(Tanasevitch 1987a)
Epigyne
(Tanasevitch 1987a)
Vulva
(Tanasevitch 1987a)
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
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Tanasevitch A V (1987a) The linyphiid spiders of the Caucasus, USSR (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 67: 297-383 
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