Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Ozyptila  Simon, 1864   52 species

Ozyptila orientalis balkarica  Ovtsharenko, 1979

Description
Male

Prosoma lighter than in O. orientalis orientalis. Median fovea light, with distinct light margins. Prosoma length: 1.32 mm.

Body length male: 2.8 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 1.3 mm.

Body length female: 3.36 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Caucasus (Russia, Georgia)
Phenology
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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) |||
References

Logunov D V, Marusik Y M (1994b) A faunistic review of the crab spiders (Araneae, Thomisidae) from the mountains of south Siberia. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (Ent.) 64: 177-197 pdf

Marusik Y M (2008) Synopsis of the Ozyptila rauda-group (Araneae, Thomisidae), with revalidation of Ozyptila balkarica Ovtsharenko, 1979. Zootaxa 1909: 52-64 pdf

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

Ovtsharenko V I (1979) Spiders of the families Gnaphosidae, Thomisidae, Lycosidae (Aranei) in the Great Caucasus. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Leningrad 85: 39-53 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

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