Philodromidae  Thorell, 1869 / Pulchellodromus  Wunderlich, 2012   11 species

Pulchellodromus ruficapillus  (Simon, 1885)

Description
Male

Tibia I with three pairs of ventral spines. Palp: conductor compact, truncate with small retrolateral tip, sperm duct loop symmetric, without descending part, embolus hidden in ventral view, its very tip sometimes visible, embolar base membraneous.

Prosoma length: 1.3-1.8 mm.

Female

Tibia I with three pairs of ventral spines. Epigyne: keel of median septum wide, copulatory ducts shorter than diameter of receptacula, sclerotised arches of median keel conspicuous, copulatory ducts wide (1/2 diameter of receptacula), glandular
hump large.

Prosoma length: 1.5-1.8 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Mediterranean to Kazakhstan
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.

Albania   (Vrenozi & Jäger, 2012) ||| Austria   (no references) ||| Bulgaria   (Naumova et al., 2021) ||| France   (no references) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Hungary   (Mezőfi & Markó, 2018) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania   (Duma, 2008) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Serbia   (Grbić et al., 2021) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, 2003) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Febrer B (2017) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 8-24 pdf

Bosmans R (2003) A checklist of the spiders of Tunisia, with description of a new species of Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Kaupia - Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 12: 89-109 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Duma I (2008) Philodromus ruficapillus Simon, 1885 (Araneidae [sic]: Philodromidae): new data on the morphological variability and northern distribution limits of the species. North-Western Journal of Zoology 4: 150-153 pdf

Grbić G, Hänggi A, Krnjajić S (2021) Spiders (Araneae) of Subotica Sandland (Serbia): additional arguments in environmental protection. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 67: 15-61 pdf

Jäger P (1995c) Spinnenaufsammlungen aus Ostösterreich mit vier Erstnachweisen für Österreich. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 9: 12-25 pdf

Kastrygina Z A, Kovblyuk M M (2014) The spider genus Pulchellodromus Wunderlich, 2012 in the Crimea (Aranei: Philodromidae). Arthropoda Selecta 23: 279-283 pdf

Mezőfi L, Markó V (2018) Some rare and remarkable spider species from Hungary (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 1-9 pdf

Muster C, Bosmans R, Thaler K (2007) The Philodromus pulchellus-group in the Mediterranean: taxonomic revision, phylogenetic analysis and biogeography (Araneae: Philodromidae). Invertebrate Systematics 21: 39-72 pdf

Naumova M, Blagoev G, Deltshev D (2021) Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984: 228-257 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 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

Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2012) A faunistic study on ground-dwelling spiders (Araneae) in the Tirana district, Albania. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 81-87 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
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