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Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Tegenaria  Latreille, 1804   110 species

Tegenaria lyncea Brignoli, 1978

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021250

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Description
Male

Prosoma yellow with thin dark grey margin, with light grey radial stripes and darker areas between them, cephalic region brown, with dark brown median stripe and 2 lateral stripes. Labium, maxillae and chelicerae dark brown. Legs light yellow. Opisthosoma with pattern of grey and pale markings. Spinnerets pale.

Body length male: 8.0 mm
Female

Colouration of prosoma, sternum, chelicerae and opisthosoma as in males. Legs light brown with yellow femora. Spinnerets pale, except basal segment of anterior spinnerets.

Body length female: 7.75 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Turkey, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Brignoli 1978a)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Brignoli 1978a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Seropian et al. 2024a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Seropian et al. 2024a)

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male Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Guseinov et al. 2005)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Guseinov et al. 2005)

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male Tibial apophysis, dorsal view
(Seropian et al. 2024a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Guseinov et al. 2005)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Guseinov et al. 2005)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Brignoli 1978a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Guseinov et al. 2005)

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   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2024a) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1978a) Ragni di Turchia V. Specie nuove o interesanti, cavernicole ed epigee, di varie famiglie (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 85: 461-541 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 22 July 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Guseinov E F, Marusik Y M, Koponen S (2005) Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Azerbaijan 5. Faunistic review of the funnel-web spiders (Agelenidae) with the description of a new genus and species. Arthropoda Selecta 14: 153-177 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

Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Krammer H-J, Thormann J, Hein N, Karalashvili L, Karalashvili N, Datunashvili A (2024a) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus Barcode of Life (CaBoL) project. Part III. Caucasiana 3: 89-118 pdf

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
27-04-2024 Image insert
27-04-2024 Distribution insert Detail