Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Pseudomogrus  Simon, 1937   16 species

Pseudomogrus caspicus (Ponomarev, 1978)

Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown to almost black, densely covered with white and red scales. Clypeus yellow-orange, covered with white hairs. Sternum dark brown, densely covered with white hairs. Chelicerae dark brown, basal 2/3 covered with white hairs. Legs: Coxae and trochanter light yellow, remaining segments mottled with brown, all segments densely covered with white hairs. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark grey, without visible pattern, covered with white hairs, sides and venter grey-yellow. Spinnerets yellow-brown.

 

Female

Colouration somewhat lighter than in males, prosoma and opisthosoma with well marked colour patterns, venter yellow. Pedipalps yellow.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Russia (Europe), Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) |||
References

Logunov D V, Marusik YM (2003) A revision of the genus Yllenus Simon, 1868 (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae). KMK Scientific Press Moscow, 168 pp 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 (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
01-12-2013 Distribution update Detail