Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Synema  Simon, 1864   10 species

Synema caucasicum  Utochkin, 1960

Description
Male

Colouration as in females, except dorsum of opisthosoma brownish black, with a yellowish white mark. Prosoma length: 2.1 mm.

Female

Prosoma reddish brown, sparsely covered with some black spines and short bright setae. Prosoma length: 2.1 mm. Chelicerae reddish brown. Sternum dark brown, with brownish yellow marks, covered with some fine setae. Opisthosoma: dorsum covered with short and thick setae, with yellowish white and brown-black markings, venter with a broad black-brown longitudinal band, bordered by 4 rows of small dirty yellow marks ranging from epiastric furrow to the spinnerets and, additionally, with 5 white marks.

Additional information

On flowers.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
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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.

Armenia   (Zarikian et al., 2023b) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022; Khasayeva & Huseynov, 2019) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) |||
References

Khasayeva S I, Huseynov E F (2019) New records of spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) from Azerbaijan. Euroasian Entomological Journal 18: 357-361 pdf

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

Utochkin A S (1960b) Spiders of the genus Synaema, the group globosum (F.) in the USSR. Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 39: 1018-1024 pdf

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

Zarikian N A, Kosyan A, Marusik Y M (2023b) New records of spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from Armenia. 1. Ten genera and 20 species of the families Araneidae, Theridiidae and Thomisidae. Euroasian Entomological Journal 22: 141-149 pdf

Updates
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