Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Dysdera  Latreille, 1804   214 species

Dysdera daghestanica  Dunin, 1991

Description
Male

Prosoma length 4.3 mm, width 3.4 mm. Prosoma and chelicerae brown, shagreen with small spots. Sternum, labium and gnathocoxae orange-brown with small spots. Leg spination: Femur IV with 1.2 dorso-basal spines; tibia III with 1.2 ventral, 2.1 anterior and 1.1 posterior spines; tibia IV with 2.2 ventral spines. Opisthosoma gray-white.

Leg spination and median apophysis of the pedipalpus are typical.

Body length male: 10.3 mm
Female

Appearance similar to the male. Prosoma length 4.10-4.65 mm, width 3.55-3.95 mm. Leg spination more variable than in the male: Femur IV with 2-4 dorso-basal spines; tibia III with 1.2 ventral, 2.2 or 1.2 anterior and 1.1 posterior spines, tibia IV with 2.2.2 or 2.2 ventral, 2.1 or 1.2 or 1.1 anterior and 1.1 posterior spines.

Endogyne is not characteristic.

Additional information

Above 1000 m asl in oak-hornbeam forests near the forest edge under rocks.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Dagestan
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Russia (Caucasus)
Phenology
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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

Dunin P M (1991a) New spider species of the genus Dysdera from the Caucasus (Aranei, Haplogynae, Dysderidae). Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 70(8): 90-98 pdf

Dunin P M (1992b) The spider family Dysderidae of the Caucasian fauna (Arachnida Aranei Haplogynae). Arthropoda Selecta 1(3): 35-76 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

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Zamani A, Marusik Y M (2024) New data on Dysdera Latreille, 1804 and Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 (Araneae: Dysderidae) of the Caucasus, with new species and records. Zootaxa 5397: 195-217 pdf

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