Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Pterotricha  Kulczyński, 1903   20 species

Pterotricha lentiginosa  (C. L. Koch, 1837)

Description
Male

Tarsi ventrally with two rows of spine-shaped bristles instead of a scopula, patella IV with lateral bristles. Palp: Tibia with a ventral rim which sticks out and is usually sclerotized, but no true apophysis in this position.

Female

As in male. Epigyne: Longer than wide, with a large anterior depression/pit which may be divided.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey
Figures
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.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c; Logunov, 2013b) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Greece / Crete   (no references) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| Serbia   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a) ||| Ukraine  Removed (Kovblyuk & Kastrygina, 2015b) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Chatzaki M, Thaler K, Mylonas M (2002a) Ground spiders (Gnaphosidae; Araneae) of Crete (Greece). Taxonomy and distribution. I. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 109: 559-601 pdf

Dalmas R de (1921) Monographie des Araignées de la section des Pterotricha (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 89: 233-328 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Kovblyuk M M, Kastrygina Z A (2015b) Updated catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Crimea. Ukainska Entomofaunistyka 6(2): 1-81 pdf

Levy G (1995) Revision of the spider subfamily Gnaphosinae in Israel (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Journal of Natural History 29: 919-981 pdf

Logunov D V (2013b) On a small spider collection from Cyprus (Arachnida: Araneae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 127: 4-5 pdf

Murphy J (2007) Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society St Neots, Cambridgeshire, 605 pp. pdf

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 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

Updates
10-11-2023 Distribution update Detail
29-03-2021 Image insert
28-03-2021 Image insert
28-03-2021 Distribution update Detail
06-11-2019 Distribution update Detail
28-09-2016 Datasheet update Detail