Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Plesiophantes  Heimer, 1981   3 species

Plesiophantes joosti Heimer, 1981

Beschreibung
Männchen

Cheliceren mit 3 Zähnchen. Beine gelb, sehr lang, alle Tibien mit zwei dorsalen Borsten.

Prosomalänge: 1.3 mm, Prosomabreite: 1.1 mm.

Weibchen

Prosoma gelb, Rand graubraun. Basis des Opisthosoma hell braungrau und mit dunklem, braungrünem und hellweissem Muster. Beine gelb. Epigyne: Befruchtungsgang eine 3x gewundene Spirale. Vulva einfach, Spermatheken unterhalb der Epigyne.

Prosomalänge: 1.1 mm, Prosomabreite: 0.9 mm.

Verbreitung
  Vorkommen
  kein Nachweis
Weltweite Verbreitung (WSC 2026): Turkey, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia)
Abbildungen
Verbreitungsnachweise
Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2023b) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Karabulut & Türkeş, 2012; Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
Literatur

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

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

Tanasevitch A V (2025b) Notes on the spider genus Plesiophantes Heimer, 1981, with the first description of the female of P. tanasevitchi Wunderlich, 2011 (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Invertebrate Zoology 22: 718-726 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

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