Philodromidae  Thorell, 1869 / Rhysodromus  Schick, 1965   10 species

Rhysodromus timidus  Szita & Logunov, 2008

Description
Male

Prosoma whitish, with pattern of reddish brown and beige stripes. Prosoma length: 1.45-1.8 mm. Legs sandy coloured, with poorly visible dark stripes and splashes around spines. Opisthosoma beige, with dark brown and yellowish brown pattern.

Body length male: 3.25-4.25 mm
Female

Prosoma yellow, with 2 broad light brown longitudinal bands, clypeus yellow. Prosoma length: 2.40 mm. Sternum yellow. Legs yellow with numerous brown spots. Opisthosoma: dorsum yellow, with dark grey cardiac mark and bent, grey transverse lines, venter light yellow with brown spots and 3 longitudinal lines between epigastric furrow and spinnerets, a brush of dense brown bristles in front of the spinnerets.

Body length female: 6.2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Russia (Caucasus), Kazakhstan, Pakistan
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"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.

Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) |||
References

Logunov D V, Ballarin F, Marusik Y M (2011) New faunistic records of the jumping and crab spiders of Karakoram, Pakistan (Aranei: Philodromidae, Salticidae and Thomisidae). Arthropoda Selecta 20: 233-240 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 (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, Aliev M A, Khabiev G N, Shmatko V Y (2019a) New data on the spider fauna (Aranei) of Dagestan, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 28: 309-334 pdf

Szita É, Logunov D (2008) A review of the histrio group of the spider genus Philodromus Walckenaer, 1826 (Araneae, Philodromidae) of the eastern Palaearctic region. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 54: 23-73 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
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23-10-2015 Distribution update Detail
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