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Tetragnathidae  Menge, 1866 / Pachygnatha  Sundevall, 1823   10 species

Pachygnatha clerckoides Wunderlich, 1985

Description
Male

Prosoma red-brown, median part and margin partly darkebed. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on promargin and 4 teeth on retromargin, apical-frontal apophysis pointed and straight. Sternum medium-brown. Legs yellow. Opisthosoma: dorsum with dark grey folium, pairs of white spots, sides with a white longitudinal band, venter with a pair of white longitudinal bands.

Body length male: 3.3-4.3 mm
Female

Colouration as in males, except dorsal folium slightly lighter.

 

Body length female: 4.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Iran
Phenology
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Distribution List
Albania   (Komnenov, 2018) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Vlasov, 2021) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev et al., 2021b; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Esyunin S L, Vlasov S V (2021) [Remarks to the fauna and biotopic distribution of spiders in the Talovskaya steppe]. In: Steppes of Northern Eurasia. Proceedings of the IX international symposium. OSU Publishing House, Orenburg. pp. 300-304 pdf

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Komnenov M (2018) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the floodplains of the Vjosa river, south Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 197-212 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

Ponomarev A V, Alekseev S K, Komarov Y E, Shmatko V Y (2021b) Spiders (Aranei) of the Terek River valley in Mozdok District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 17: 351-374 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

Wunderlich J (1985b) Pachygnatha clerckoides n. sp. aus Jugoslawien (Arachnida: Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 65: 325-328 pdf

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