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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Xysticus  C. L. Koch, 1835   78 species

Xysticus caucasius  L. Koch, 1878

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031840

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Description
Male

Male unknown.

Female

Prosoma reddish brown to brownish yellow, mottled with brown, with indistinct median stripe, posterior part yellowish white, with brown stripe on posterior margin and brown spots, lateral parts mottled with white, margin with narrow white line. Prosoma length: 4 mm. Sternum reddish brown, mottled with yellowish white. Legs brownish red, with white spots, tibiae dorsally with light longitudinal stripes, metatarsi and tarsi yellow-brown. Opisthosoma grey-yellow, dorsum with reddish pattern, dentate in posterior part, sides with reddish stripes.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2019): Georgia
Figures
species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(L. Koch 1878)

References

Koch L (1878) Kaukasische Arachnoiden. In Schneider, O. (ed.), Naturwissenschaftliche Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Kaukasusländer. Dresden 3: 36-71

Otto S (2017) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 08.2017. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

World Spider Catalog (2019) World Spider Catalog, version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.01.2019) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates
13-02-2015 Image insert