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
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Utochkin 1960b)
Pedipalp with tibia, patella and femur, retrolateral view
(Utochkin 1960b)
Opisthosoma, ventral view
(Utochkin 1960b)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Utochkin 1960b)
Epigyne/vulva
(Utochkin 1960b)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Utochkin 1960b)
Distribution List
References
Khasayeva S I, Huseynov E F (2019) New records of spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) from Azerbaijan. Euroasian Entomological Journal 18: 357-361 
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
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
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