Philodromidae  Thorell, 1869 / Pulchellodromus  Wunderlich, 2012   11 species

Pulchellodromus medius  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Description
Male

Tibia I with three pairs of ventral spines. Palp resembles P. ruficapillus, but conductor long and triangular, shape of tibial apophysis different too. Sperm duct loop symmetric, embolus hidden in ventral view, its very tip sometimes visible, embolar base membraneous.

Prosoma length: 1.2-1.4 mm.

Female

Tibia I with three pairs of ventral spines. Epigyne resembles P. ruficapillus and P. pulchellus, but with narrow keel of median septum and copulatory ducts as long as diameter of receptacula. Epigynum with lateral grooves, median septum elevated. Glandular heads globular.

Prosoma length: 1.4-1.7 mm

Additional information

Sub-Mediterranean forests with Pistacia mutica, Quercus pubescens, meadow steppes, steppes, abandoned fields, semi-deserts with Artemisia, mountain stony steppes.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Italy, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan), Iran
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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.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022; Logunov & Huseynov, 2008) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2024a) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022; Ponomarev et al., 2018b) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (no references) ||| Ukraine   (Kastrygina & Kovblyuk, 2014) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 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

Logunov D V, Huseynov E F (2008) A faunistic review of the spider family Philodromidae (Aranei) of Azerbaijan. Arthropoda Selecta 17: 117-131 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

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

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

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

Ponomarev A V, Shokhin I V, Terskov E N, Shmatko V Y (2018b) Preliminary data on the fauna of spiders (Aranei) of Taman Peninsula and Tuzla Island (Russia). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 14: 121-129 pdf

Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Krammer H-J, Thormann J, Hein N, Karalashvili L, Karalashvili N, Datunashvili A (2024a) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus Barcode of Life (CaBoL) project. Part III. Caucasiana 3: 89-118 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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