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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Pelecopsis  Simon, 1864   40 species

Pelecopsis laptevi  Tanasevitch & Fet, 1986

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012271

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Description
Male

Prosoma grey-brown with rows of impressed dots dorsally. Sternum dark brown, covered with sparse impressed dots. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on promargin. Opisthosoma dark grey with punctate dorsal and ventral scuta. Palp: patella elongated, cymbium with straight finger-like proximal outgrowth, tibia with short rounded and long triangle outgrowths.

Prosoma length: 0.6 mm, prosoma width: 0.5 mm.

Female

Prosoma dark brown, gradually darkening towards margins, with impressed dots. Chelicerae with 3-4 teeth on pro- and 1 tooth on retromargin. Opisthosoma dark grey, dorsally with 4 chitinous sigillae forming trapezium. Epigyne with parallel longitudinal parts of inner passages.

Prosoma length: 0.7 mm, prosoma width: 0.6 mm.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Tanasevitch 1989)

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male Pedipalp
(Tanasevitch & Fet 1986)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Dimitrov & Naumova 2021)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Dimitrov & Naumova 2021)

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male Palpal tibia
(Tanasevitch 1989)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Tanasevitch 1989)

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female Epigyne
(Tanasevitch 1989)

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.

Bulgaria   (Dimitrov & Naumova, 2021) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Dimitrov D, Naumova M (2021) A faunistic survey of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Sakar Mountain, Bulgaria. Arachnology 18: 689-699 pdf

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

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 (1989) The linyphiid spiders of Middle Asia (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 69: 83-176 pdf

Tanasevitch A V, Fet V Y (1986) Materials to the spider fauna (Aranei) of Turkmenistan. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk (Biol. Nauk) 1986(1): 33-42 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

Updates
09-03-2021 Image insert
09-03-2021 Distribution insert Detail