Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Plesiophantes  Heimer, 1981   3 species

Plesiophantes simplex  Tanasevitch, 1987

Description
Male

Prosoma brownish yellow, with broad darker margin. Posterior median eyes separated by their radius. Sternum brownish-yellowish. Legs yellow, very long. Opisthosma pale dorsally, with several symmetric grey spots and dorso-lateral stripes.

Body length male: 4.0 mm
Female

Opisthosoma with two broad grey stripes ventrally, with a broad dark stripe laterally and dorsally with grey spots, becoming transverse bands at posterior half of opisthosoma. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 3.3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Georgia
Phenology
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"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) |||
References

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

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