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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Rhomphaea  L. Koch, 1872   5 species

Rhomphaea hyrcana (Logunov & Marusik, 1990)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007063

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Description
Male

Prosoma length: 1.07 mm.

Body length male: 6.6 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 1.50 mm.

Body length female: 7.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Turkey: probably misidentified R. rostrata (see WSC)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Georgia, Azerbaijan, China, Japan, Turkey?
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, lateral view
(Logunov & Marusik 1990)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov & Marusik 1990)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov & Marusik 1990)

species

male Habitus, lateral view
(Logunov & Marusik 1990)

species

female Epigyne
(Logunov & Marusik 1990)

species

female Eyes, dorsal view
(Logunov & Marusik 1990)

species

female Habitus, lateral view
(Logunov & Marusik 1990)

Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Sancak et al., 2017; Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Logunov D V, Marusik Y M (1990) The spider genus Argyrodes (Aranei, Theridiidae) in the USSR. Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 69(2): 133-136 pdf

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

Sancak Z, Koç H, Etirli E, Erdek E (2017) The first record of genus Rhomphaea L. Koch, 1872 (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Turkey. Biharean Biologist 11: 121-122 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
17-11-2024 Distribution update Detail
16-11-2017 Datasheet update Detail
15-11-2017 Distribution update Detail
20-11-2014 Image insert