Persiscape caucasica (Guseinov, Marusik & Koponen, 2005)
Description
Female
Prosoma yellow, with 2 wide dark grey submarginal bands and thin grey margin. Sternum yellow, laterally dark grey. Labium grey. Maxillae yellow. Chelicerae brown. Legs yellow, with grey spots. Opisthosoma: dorsum light grey, with light brown anteromedian lanceolate spot and 2 dark grey lateral bands, venter with slightly darker rectangular field between epigastric furrow and spinnerets. Basal segment of anterior spinnerets brown, other spinnerets yellow.
Body length female: 9.8 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Epigyne, ventral view
(Guseinov et al. 2005)
Epigyne, antero-ventral view
(Guseinov et al. 2005)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Guseinov et al. 2005)
Epigyne
(Zamani et al. 2024d)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Guseinov et al. 2005)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Zamani et al. 2024d)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Zamani et al. 2024d)
Distribution List
References
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Guseinov E F, Marusik Y M, Koponen S (2005) Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Azerbaijan 5. Faunistic review of the funnel-web spiders (Agelenidae) with the description of a new genus and species. Arthropoda Selecta 14: 153-177
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WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Zamani A, Kaya R S, Marusik Y M (2024d) New taxonomic and faunistic data on the funnel-weavers (Araneae, Agelenidae) of Turkiye and the Caucasus, with five new species. ZooKeys 1218: 251-286