Overall colouration darker than in females. Palps: femur dark, patella and tibia yellow, suffused with grey, cymbium black, at its base a distinct yellow spot. Prosoma: lateral bands broken at sides of head. Clypeus and chelicerae yellow. Legs: femora dorsally dark brown, with 2 pairs of longitudunal yellow stripes, tarsi I brownish. Opisthosoma with lanceolate stripe.
Prosoma length 2.4 mm, width 1.9 mm.
Body length male: 4.8 mm
Prosoma length 3.2 mm, width 2.6 mm.
Body length female: 6.9 mmHigh mountains between 2500 and 3000 m in alpine pastures and meadows.
Habitus similar to P. pontica but differing in palp structure.
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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.
Buchar J, Thaler K (1998) Lycosidae from the high alpine zone of the Caucasus range, with comparative remarks on the fauna of the Alps (Arachnida: Araneae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 30: 705-717
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
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
Zamani A, Nadolny A A, Dolejš P (2022b) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part X. Arachnology 19: 551-573
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13-05-2014 | Datasheet update | Detail |