Philodromidae  Thorell, 1869 / Pulchellodromus  Wunderlich, 2012   11 species

Pulchellodromus ruficapillus (Simon, 1885)

Description
Male

Tibia I with three pairs of ventral spines. Palp: conductor compact, truncate with small retrolateral tip, sperm duct loop symmetric, without descending part, embolus hidden in ventral view, its very tip sometimes visible, embolar base membraneous.

Prosoma length: 1.3-1.8 mm.

Female

Tibia I with three pairs of ventral spines. Epigyne: keel of median septum wide, copulatory ducts shorter than diameter of receptacula, sclerotised arches of median keel conspicuous, copulatory ducts wide (1/2 diameter of receptacula), glandular
hump large.

Prosoma length: 1.5-1.8 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Mediterranean to Kazakhstan
Phenology
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Distribution List
Albania   (Vrenozi & Jäger, 2012) ||| Austria   (Jäger, 1995c) ||| Bulgaria   (Naumova et al., 2021) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Greece   (Bosmans et al., 2009) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Hungary   (Mezőfi & Markó, 2018) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania   (Duma, 2008a) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Serbia   (Grbić et al., 2021) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019; Barrientos & Febrer, 2017) ||| Tunisia   (Kmira et al., 2025) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019; Kastrygina & Kovblyuk, 2014) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Febrer B (2017) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 8-24 pdf

Bosmans R, Baert L, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H, Maelfait J-P, Van Keer J (2009) Spiders of Lesbos (Greece). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 24(suppl.): 1-70 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Duma I (2008a) Philodromus ruficapillus Simon, 1885 (Araneidae [sic]: Philodromidae): new data on the morphological variability and northern distribution limits of the species. North-Western Journal of Zoology 4: 150-153 pdf

Grbić G, Hänggi A, Krnjajić S (2021) Spiders (Araneae) of Subotica Sandland (Serbia): additional arguments in environmental protection. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 67: 15-61 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Jäger P (1995c) Spinnenaufsammlungen aus Ostösterreich mit vier Erstnachweisen für Österreich. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 9: 12-25 pdf

Kastrygina Z A, Kovblyuk M M (2014) The spider genus Pulchellodromus Wunderlich, 2012 in the Crimea (Aranei: Philodromidae). Arthropoda Selecta 23: 279-283 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Mezőfi L, Markó V (2018) Some rare and remarkable spider species from Hungary (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 1-9 pdf

Muster C, Bosmans R, Thaler K (2007) The Philodromus pulchellus-group in the Mediterranean: taxonomic revision, phylogenetic analysis and biogeography (Araneae: Philodromidae). Invertebrate Systematics 21: 39-72 pdf

Naumova M, Blagoev G, Deltshev D (2021) Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984: 228-257 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

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

Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2012) A faunistic study on ground-dwelling spiders (Araneae) in the Tirana district, Albania. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 81-87 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

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