Eresidae  C. L. Koch, 1845 / Eresus  Walckenaer, 1805   19 species

Eresus lavrosiae  Mcheidze, 1997

Description
Male

Prosoma black, dark brown or carmine, cephalic region bulged. Prosoma length: 6 mm. Chelicerae black or brown, densely covered with black hairs, cheliceral furrow margin with 1 tooth. Sternum shagreen, dark brown or black. Legs densely covered with black setae. Opisthosoma black or dark brown, densely covered with short setae, the sides with 2 broad white bands, dorsum with 2-3 pairs of oval, red or whitish impressed dots, venter black or dark brown.

Female

Female unknown.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Iran
Phenology
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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   (Zarikian et al., 2023a) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Zamani et al., 2020b; Danışman et al., 2024) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Mcheidze T S (1997) Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review. Tbilisi Univ, 390 pp pdf

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

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Zamani A, Altin Ç, Szűts T (2020b) A black sheep in Eresus (Araneae: Eresidae): taxonomic notes on the ladybird spiders of Iran and Turkey, with a new species. Zootaxa 4851: 559-572 pdf

Zarikian N, Dilbaryan K, Khachatryan A, Harutyunova L (2023a) Species composition and diversity of spider (Arachnida: Araneae) in the northern forests of Armenia. Biodiversity 24: 66-75 pdf

Updates
13-05-2023 Distribution insert Detail
09-12-2022 Distribution update Detail
11-09-2020 Image insert
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