Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Pelecopsis  Simon, 1864   40 species

Pelecopsis crassipes  Tanasevitch, 1987

Description
Male

Prosoma dark reddish-brown, shape of cephalic lobe varies. Sternum dark brown. Legs reddish brown. Opisthosoma with scutum, covering whole dorsal surface.

Body length male: 1.75 mm
Female

Prosoma dark reddish brown. Sternum reddish brown with dark margin. Legs reddish brown. Opisthosoma grey, scutum absent.

Body length female: 2.0 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan)
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   (Otto, 2022) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 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.

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

Tanasevitch A V (1987a) The linyphiid spiders of the Caucasus, USSR (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 67: 297-383 pdf

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