Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Pelecopsis  Simon, 1864   41 species

Pelecopsis crassipes Tanasevitch, 1987

Description
Male

Prosoma dark reddish-brown, shape of cephalic lobe varies. Sternum dark brown. Legs reddish brown. Opisthosoma with scutum, covering whole dorsal surface.

Body length male: 1.75 mm
Female

Prosoma dark reddish brown. Sternum reddish brown with dark margin. Legs reddish brown. Opisthosoma grey, scutum absent.

Body length female: 2.0 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan)
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Armenia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) |||
References

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

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

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Tanasevitch A V (1987a) The linyphiid spiders of the Caucasus, USSR (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 67: 297-383 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf