Amaurobiidae  Thorell, 1869 / Amaurobius  C. L. Koch, 1837   38 species

Amaurobius antipovae  Marusik & Kovblyuk, 2004

Description
Male

Prosoma yellow, with dark radial stripes, cephalic part with dark margin. Chelicerae brown. Legs yellow, femur, tibia and metatarsus with 3 grey rings. Opisthosoma: dorsum with white bands around cardiac mark, and dark longitudinal and transversal stripes, venter light with small dark grey dots.

Body length male: 5.3-5.8 mm
Female

Colouration as in males, somewhat lighter.

Body length female: 5.6-6.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Caucasus (Russia, Georgia)
Phenology
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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.

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

Marusik Y M, Kovblyuk M M (2004) New and interesting cribellate spiders from Abkhazia (Aranei: Amaurobiidae, Zoropsidae). Arthropoda Selecta 13: 55-61 pdf

Marusik Y M, Otto S, Japoshvili G (2020a) Taxonomic notes on Amaurobius (Araneae: Amaurobiidae), including the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4718: 47-56 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

Updates
03-01-2020 Image insert
21-10-2015 Distribution update Detail