Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Stemonyphantes  Menge, 1866   8 species

Stemonyphantes abantensis  Wunderlich, 1978

Description
Male

Prosoma yellow-brown. Prosoma length: 2.0 mm. Sternum suffused with grey. Legs light brown, all femora with two dorsal spines, tibiae with indistinct dark grey annulation, TmI 0.57. Opisthosoma light grey, dorsum with dark grey longitudinal band, venter dark grey, anterior to spinnerets with a light grey transverse band.

Body length male: 4.0-5.0 mm
Female

Colouration as in males. Prosoma length: 2.2 mm. All femora with two dorsal spines.

Body length female: 4.5-6.0 mm
Additional information

1200-1300 m a.s.l.

Genitalia of S. abantensis and S. agnatus are very similar, with only small differences in radix and embolus of the male palpus; differences between the vulvae of the females are more pronounced. Dorsal spination of the femora is given as a good character by Tanasevitch (1990, see above), but material from Georgia exhibits one as well as two spines in one specimen (Otto, pers. comm.).

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Distribution in Caucasus Ecoregion uncertain, possibly confused with S. agnatus
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Turkey
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.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

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

Tanasevitch A V (1990) The spider family Linyphiidae in the fauna of the Caucasus (Arachnida, Aranei). In: Striganova B R (ed.), Fauna nazemnykh bespozvonochnykh Kavkaza. Moscow, Akaedemia Nauk, pp. 5-114 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

Wunderlich J (1978) Die Gattungen Stemonyphantes Menge 1866 und Narcissius Jermolajew 1930, mit zwei Neubeschreibungen (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 59: 125-132 pdf

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