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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Oedothorax  Bertkau, 1883   10 species

Oedothorax meridionalis Tanasevitch, 1987

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012110

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Description
Male

Prosoma reddish brown, with dark radial stripes and hump-shaped elevation behind ocular area. Sternum reddish brown. Legs light brown. Opisthosoma grey.

Body length male: 2.1 mm
Female

Colouration as in males, except opisthosoma with a lighter median band.

Body length female: 2.6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Caucasus, Russia (Caucasus, Central Asia), Iran, Central Asia
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Tanasevitch 1987a)

species

male Palpal tibia
(Tanasevitch 1987a)

species

male Prosoma, lateral view
(Tanasevitch 1987a)

species

female Vulva
(Tanasevitch 1987a)

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.

Armenia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 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.

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

Updates
21-10-2015 Distribution update Detail