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Cybaeidae  Banks, 1892 / Cybaeus  L. Koch, 1868   10 species

Cybaeus abchasicus Charitonov, 1947

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021339

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Description
Male

Prosoma 3.5 mm long, 2.4 mm wide. Sternum1.7 mm long, 1.5 mm wide. Opisthosoma length 3.3 mm.

Prosoma and abdomen coloration as well as cheliceral teeth as in the female.

 

Body length male: 7.0 mm
Female

Prosoma 3.8 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, brown with distinct markings. Sternum 1.6 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, heart-shaped, brighter than gnathocoxae and labium. Chelicerae dark brown, with knee-like projecting base, anterior margin with 3 teeth, posterior margin with 8 teeth; distal teeth larger than proximal teeth. Distal two palpus segments darker than femur and patella. Legs brown, femora annulated. Opisthosoma 3.5 mm long, gray with 3-4 pairs of white marks or pattern absent.

 

Body length female: 7.3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Turkey, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2010)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2010)

species

male Patellar apophysis
(Kovblyuk et al. 2010)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2010)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Brignoli 1978a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2010)

species

female Prosoma, dorsal view
(Charitonov 1947)

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.

Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 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

Charitonov D E (1947) Spiders and harvestspiders from the caves of the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. Byulleten Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody (N.S., Biol.) 52: 15-28 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Kovblyuk M M, Ponomarev A V, Dvadnenko K V (2010) Redescription of Cybaeus abchasicus Charitonov, 1947, with the first description of the male (Aranei: Cybaeidae). Arthropoda Selecta 19: 221-225 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 (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
20-03-2015 Datasheet update Detail
19-03-2015 Image insert