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Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Geolycosa  Montgomery, 1904   4 species

Geolycosa charitonovi  (Mcheidze, 1997)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017396

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Description
Male

Body colouration brown. Prosoma with a broad, light median band. Sternum, legs and palps brown. Chelicerae dark brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum bright, venter black with a pair og large white spots in front of the epigastric furrow.

Body length male: 12.4-13.8 mm
Female

Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 18.3-21.0 mm
Additional information

underneath stones during the day. Occurs in the Caucasus Major at 700 m to 1800 m a.s.l. in sun exposed habitats with sparce herbaceous vegetation in the montane forests.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan), India?
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2012c)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2012c)

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male Median apophysis, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2012c)

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male Median apophysis, apical view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2012c)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2012c)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2012c)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) |||
References

Kovblyuk M M, Otto S, Marusik Y M, Ponomarev A V (2012c) Redescription of the Caucasian species Geolycosa charitonovi (Mcheidze, 1997) (Araneae: Lycosidae), with the first description of the male. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15: 245-252 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 (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf