Palliduphantes khobarum (Charitonov, 1947)
Description
Male
Prosoma yellow, prosoma length: 0.80 mm, prosoma width: 0.68 mm. Chelicerae: promargin with 3 teeth. Legs yellow, TmI 0.18. Opisthosoma pale grey, dorsally with indistinct pattern consisting of transverse stripes in posterior half.
Body length male: 1.75 mmFemale
Prosoma brownish yellow. prosoma length: 0.85 mm, prosma width: 0.68 mm. Sternum brownish yellow. Chelicerae: promargin with 3 teeth. Legs yellow, TmI 0.17. Opisthosoma as in males.
Body length female: 2.30 mmAdditional information
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Tanasevitch 1990)
Lamella characteristica
(Tanasevitch 1990)
Paracymbium
(Tanasevitch 1990)
Terminal apophysis
(Tanasevitch 1990)
Palpal tibia
(Tanasevitch 1990)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1986)
Epigyne, lateral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1986)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Tanasevitch 1990)
Epigyne, lateral view
(Tanasevitch 1990)
Distribution List
References
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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.
Tanasevitch A V (1990) The spider family Linyphiidae in the fauna of the Caucasus (Arachnida, Aranei). In: Striganova B R (ed.), Fauna nazemnykh bespozvonochnykh Kavkaza. Moscow, Akaedemia Nauk, pp. 5-114
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2