Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Plesiophantes  Heimer, 1981   3 species

Plesiophantes joosti  Heimer, 1981

Description
Male

Chelicerae with 3 teeth. Legs yellow, very long, all tibiae with two dorsal bristles.

Prosoma length: 1.3 mm, prosoma width: 1.1 mm.

Female

Prosoma yellow, margin greyish-brown. Base of opisthosoma light brownish-green, the base with a dark brownish green and bright white pattern. Legs yellow, long. Epigyne: copulatory duct located in the genitalia of female forming a spiral (3 times) outwards, vulva simple and spermatheca located down from epigyne.

Prosoma length: 1.1 mm, prosoma width: 0.9 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Turkey, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia)
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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.

Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2023b) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (no references) |||
References

Karabulut H, Türkeş T (2012) Description of the females of the spiders Plesiophantes joosti Heimer, 1981 and Araeoncus clavatus Tanasevitch, 1987 from Turkey (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Zoology in the Middle East 55: 89-94 pdf

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

Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Otto S, Krammer H-J, Kachlishvili N, Datunashvili A (2023b) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297 pdf

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

Updates
14-12-2023 Distribution insert Detail
24-05-2016 Image insert
01-12-2013 Distribution update Detail