Philodromidae  Thorell, 1869 / Pulchellodromus  Wunderlich, 2012   11 species

Pulchellodromus medius (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Beschreibung
Männchen

Tibia I mit 3 Paar ventraler Stacheln. Palpus: Gleicht P. ruficapillus, aber Konduktor lang und dreieckig, Tibialapophyse auch anders. Spermagänge symmetrisch, Embolus in ventraler Sicht verdeckt, manchmal Spitze sichtbar.

Prosomalänge: 1.2-1.4 mm.

Weibchen

Tibia I mit 3 Paar ventraler Stacheln. Epigyne: Gleicht P. ruficapillus und P. pulchellus, aber mit schmalem Kiel des erhobenen Mittelseptums und Kopulationsgänge so lang wie Durchmesser der Rezeptakel. Epigyne mit lateralen Gruben. Drüsenköpfe rund.

Prosomalänge: 1.4-1.7 mm.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Submediterrane Wälder mit Pistacia mutica, Quercus pubescens, Weidesteppen, Steppen, nicht mehr bewirtschaftete Felder, Halbwüste mit Artemisia, Gebirgs-Steinsteppen.

Verbreitung
  Vorkommen
  kein Nachweis
Weltweite Verbreitung (WSC 2026): Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan), Iran
Abbildungen
Verbreitungsnachweise
Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022; Logunov & Huseynov, 2008) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2024a) ||| Greece   (Muster et al., 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Wunderlich, 2025) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022; Ponomarev et al., 2018b) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Kastrygina & Kovblyuk, 2014) ||| Ukraine   (Kastrygina & Kovblyuk, 2014) |||
Literatur

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Kastrygina Z A, Kovblyuk M M (2014) The spider genus Pulchellodromus Wunderlich, 2012 in the Crimea (Aranei: Philodromidae). Arthropoda Selecta 23: 279-283 pdf

Logunov D V, Huseynov E F (2008) A faunistic review of the spider family Philodromidae (Aranei) of Azerbaijan. Arthropoda Selecta 17: 117-131 pdf

Muster C, Bosmans R, Thaler K (2007) The Philodromus pulchellus-group in the Mediterranean: taxonomic revision, phylogenetic analysis and biogeography (Araneae: Philodromidae). Invertebrate Systematics 21: 39-72 pdf

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

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, Shokhin I V, Terskov E N, Shmatko V Y (2018b) Preliminary data on the fauna of spiders (Aranei) of Taman Peninsula and Tuzla Island (Russia). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 14: 121-129 pdf

Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Krammer H-J, Thormann J, Hein N, Karalashvili L, Karalashvili N, Datunashvili A (2024a) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus Barcode of Life (CaBoL) project. Part III. Caucasiana 3: 89-118 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Wunderlich J (2025) New and rare spiders (Araneae) from the Algarve, Portugal. Beiträge zur Araneologie 18: 4-36, 162 pdf

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