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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Scutpelecopsis  Marusik & Gnelitsa, 2009   4 species

Scutpelecopsis wunderlichi Marusik & Gnelitsa, 2009

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042732

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Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown. Prosoma length: 0.81 mm. Opisthosoma heavily sclerotised.

Body length male: 1.8 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 0.79 mm.

Body length female: 2.0 mm
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: All records of S. krausi from the Caucasus belong to this species (Duma & Tanasevitch, 2011)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Armenia), Iran
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Marusik & Gnelitsa 2009)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Marusik & Gnelitsa 2009)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Marusik & Gnelitsa 2009)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Marusik & Gnelitsa 2009)

species

male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Zamani et al. 2021)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2021)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2021)

species

male Embolic division
(Marusik & Gnelitsa 2009)

species

male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Marusik & Gnelitsa 2009)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Marusik & Gnelitsa 2009)

species

male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Marusik & Gnelitsa 2009)

species

male Opisthosoma, dorso-lateral view
(Marusik & Gnelitsa 2009)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Marusik & Gnelitsa 2009)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Marusik & Gnelitsa 2009)

species

female Prosoma, lateral view
(Marusik & Gnelitsa 2009)

species

female Prosoma, dorsal view
(Marusik & Gnelitsa 2009)

species

female Opisthosoma, ventral view
(Marusik & Gnelitsa 2009)

Distribution List
Armenia   (Mikhailov, 2013) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Duma & Tanasevitch, 2011) |||
References

Duma I, Tanasevitch A V (2011) A new Scutpelecopsis Marusik & Gnelitsa from Romania (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 118: 251-256 pdf

Marusik Y M, Gnelitsa V A (2009) Description of a new genus of spiders from the eastern Mediterranean and the most armored erigonid species from the western Caucasus (Aranei: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae). Arthropoda Selecta 18: 57-68 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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

Zamani A, Nadolny A A, Esyunin S L, Marusik Y M (2021) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part VIII. Zoosystematica Rossica 30: 279-297 pdf

Updates
12-10-2023 Distribution update Detail
12-10-2023 Distribution insert Detail
05-12-2021 Image insert
25-09-2014 Image insert