Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Palliduphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 2001   66 species

Palliduphantes intirmus (Tanasevitch, 1987)

Description
Male

Prosoma brownish-yellow. Opisthosoma pale grey. Resembles P. spelaeorum. Smaller teeth on paracymbium, almost uncurved upper branch of distal part of lamella characteristica.

Prosoma length: 0.9 mm, prosoma width: 0.7 mm.

Female

Prosoma brownish-yellow. Opisthosoma grey. Resembles P. spelaeorum. Differs in shape of the epigynal scapus.

Prosoma length: 0.7 mm, prosoma width: 0.6 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan)
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Distribution List
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 (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 (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf