Synema utotchkini Marusik & Logunov, 1995
Description
Male
Prosoma dark red-brown, with yellowish area around the eyes. Opisthosoma dorsally with yellow transverse bands. Legs dark red-brown, tarsi and metatarsi reddish, basal parts of all segments yellowish. Palp: lateral tibial apopysis with two tips, wide tip of embolus.
Prosoma length: 2.3 mm, prosoma width: 2.2 mm.
Female
Colouration as in males, abdominal pattern yellow or orange or absent. Resembles S. plorator, but larger prosoma and epigyne, as well as different shape of receptacula and ducts.
Prosoma length: 2.1-2.6 mm, prosoma width: 2.2-2.6 mm.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Marusik & Logunov 1995a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Fomichev 2022a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Fomichev 2022a)
Tibial apophysis
(Marusik & Logunov 1995a)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Marusik & Logunov 1995a)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Fomichev 2022a)
Epigyne/vulva, dorsal view
(Marusik & Logunov 1995a)
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
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info 
Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp.
Fomichev A A (2022a) New data on spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of the plain part of Altai Territory, Russia. Acta Biologica Sibirica 8: 211-236
Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267
Marusik Y M, Logunov D V (1995a) The crab spiders of Middle Asia (Aranei, Thomisidae), 2. Beiträge zur Araneologie 4: 133-175
Nuruyeva T, Zamani A (2025) An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan. Zootaxa 5680: 1-168
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2