Pellenes limbatus Kulczyński, 1895
Description
Male
Prosoma dark brown, eye field black, covered with white scales and white hairs. Clypeus red-brown. Prosoma length: 1.90-2.28 mm. Chelicerae brown. Sternum brown, covered with white hairs. Legs: coxae and tarsi yellowish (in dark specimens only tarsi yellowish), remaining segments brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum grey, almost black, sometimes with a white median longitudinal line, venter dark grey to light brown (if light brown then with 4 yellow longitudinal stripes).
Female
Prosoma dark brown, covered with white hairs, eye field black. Clypeus red-brown, covered with white hairs. Prosoma length: 2.18-2.65 mm. Legs yellow, except distal parts of femora, patellae and tibiae tinged with brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum brown-grey, with 3 wide, white longitudinal stripes, posterior oart with 2 pairs of yellowish lines, venter greyish, with 4 yellowish longitudinal stripes.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov 1992b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Logunov 1992b)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Logunov 1992b)
Embolus and conductor
(Logunov 1992b)
Embolus and conductor
(Logunov 1992b)
Embolic division
(Logunov et al. 1999)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Logunov 1992b)
Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Logunov 1992b)
Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Logunov 1992b)
Vulva
(Logunov et al. 1999)
Vulva
(Logunov 1992b)
Vulva, variation
(Logunov 1992b)
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.
References
Logunov D V (1992b) The spider family Salticidae (Araneae) from Tuva. II. An annotated check list of species Arthropoda Selecta 1(2): 47-71 
Logunov D V, Marusik Y M, Rakov S Y (1999) A review of the genus Pellenes in the fauna of Central Asia and the Caucasus (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Natural History 33: 89-148
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
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
Updates
| 18-12-2014 | Image insert |