Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Tegenaria  Latreille, 1804   110 species

Tegenaria pontica Charitonov, 1947

Description
Male

Male unknown.

Female

Prosoma length: 4.15 mm, prosoma width: 2.9 mm.

Additional information

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: The finding of T. pontica in Georgia is most likely to be erroneous (Ponomarev et al., 2024)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Russia (Caucasus), Georgia?
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Mikhailov, 2022) |||
References

Charitonov D E (1947) Spiders and harvestspiders from the caves of the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. Byulleten Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody (N.S., Biol.) 52: 15-28 pdf

Deltshev C, Barjadze S, Maghradze E (2023) On the cave spiders of Georgia with description of a new blind Centromerus (Arachnida: Araneae). Historia Naturalis Bulgarica 45: 283-292 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2022) Progress in the study of the spider fauna (Aranei) of Russia and neighbouring regions: a 2020 update. Invertebrate Zoology 19: 295-304, Supplements 1.01-1.15, 2.01-2.24. 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, Mikhailov K G, Shmatko V Y (2024a) Review of spiders of the genus Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 (Aranei: Agelenidae) of Ciscaucasia and the Russian Caucasus. III. New data on fauna and distribution, with material from neighbouring regions. Arthropoda Selecta 33: 273-287 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

Updates
16-05-2024 Datasheet update Detail
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