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Palpimanidae  Thorell, 1869 / Palpimanus  Dufour, 1820   10 species

Palpimanus sogdianus Charitonov, 1946

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005609

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Description
Male

Colouration as in female

Body length male: 4.4-5.0 mm
Female

Prosoma reddish-brown, cephalic region raised. Sternum, labium, maxillae and leg I reddish brown. Legs II-IV light brown. Opisthosoma yellowish with numerous small sclerotised dots. Anterior epigastric area and part of the area above the pedicel with Scutum.

Body length female: 5.6-5.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Turkey; Georgia (Seropian et al., 2023b) and Azerbaijan: misidentifications per Fomichev et al. (2023)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Uzbekistan
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Marusik & Guseinov 2003)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Marusik & Guseinov 2003)

species

male Apical part of bulbus
(Marusik & Guseinov 2003)

species

male Apical part of bulbus
(Marusik & Guseinov 2003)

species

female Epigyne
(Marusik & Guseinov 2003)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Marusik & Guseinov 2003)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Marusik & Guseinov 2003)

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.

Azerbaijan  Removed (Otto, 2022; Fomichev et al., 2023) ||| Turkey (Asia)  Removed (Danışman et al., 2025a; Fomichev et al., 2023) |||
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

Fomichev A A, Marusik Y M, Zonstein S (2023) New and poorly known species of Palpimanus Dufour, 1820 (Araneae, Palpimanidae) from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Zootaxa 5339: 256-272 pdf

Marusik Y M, Guseinov E F (2003) Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Azerbaijan. 1. New family and genus records. Arthropoda Selecta 12: 29-46 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

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

Updates
30-08-2023 Distribution update Detail