Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Persiscape  Zamani & Marusik, 2020   3 species

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 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
Phenology
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Distribution List
Armenia   (Zamani et al., 2024d) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Greece   (Bosmans et al., 2009) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Demir et al., 2014; Demir et al., 2015; Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Bosmans R, Baert L, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H, Maelfait J-P, Van Keer J (2009) Spiders of Lesbos (Greece). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 24(suppl.): 1-70 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Demir H, Seyyar O, Türker H, Koçyiğit H O, Öner H (2015) The spider fauna of Melendiz Mountains, Niğde, Turkey. Serket 14: 146-166 pdf

Demir H, Seyyar O, Türkeş T (2014) A contribution to the study of Turkish spider fauna (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 66: 579-580 pdf

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 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, 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 pdf

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