Dysdera meschetiensis Mcheidze, 1979
Description
Male
Prosoma dark brown to almost black, lateral margins granulated. Prosoma length: 4.5 mm. Chelicerae dark brown, granulated. Sternum reddish orange, shiny. Legs I-II reddish orange, legs III-IV lighter, all femora without spines. Opisthosoma light yellow, anterior half with 2 round brown markings and dark brown or grey-brown markings in posterior half.
Female
Prosoma dark brown, shagreened, head region with marmorate markings with irregular rows. Prosoma length: 4.2 mm. Chelicerae dark brown. Sternum light brown, wrinkled. Legs: all femora without spines. Opisthosoma yellow, covered with short red setae, venter with 2 dark marks in front of the spinnerets.
Distribution
Figures
Bulbus
(Mcheidze 1979)
Bulbus
(Mcheidze 1997)
Vulva
(Mcheidze 1997)
Distribution List
References
Mcheidze T S (1979) New species of spiders of the genus Dysdera Latr. (Dysderidae) occurring in Georgia. Soobshcheniia Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoi SSR 94: 465-468 
Mcheidze T S (1997) Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review. Tbilisi Univ, 390 pp
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
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