Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Dysdera  Latreille, 1804   220 species

Dysdera tbilisiensis Mcheidze, 1979

Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown or carmine brown, shagreened, cephalic part brighter, with marmorate marks, with 2 arcuate bands directed towards the eyes. Prosoma length: 4.2 mm. Chelicerae dark brown or carmine brown. Sternum orange-yellow or brown, marmorate. Legs I-II orange-yellow, legs III-IV lighter, all femora without spines. Opisthosoma yellow, dorsum with 3 dark markings in anterior half.

Female

Prosoma length: 4.3 mm. Colouration as in males, except sternum reddish, shiny and wrinkled.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Georgia, Azerbaijan
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Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Nuruyeva et al., 2024a) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) |||
References

Dunin P M (1992b) The spider family Dysderidae of the Caucasian fauna (Arachnida Aranei Haplogynae). Arthropoda Selecta 1(3): 35-76 pdf

Mcheidze T S (1997) Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review. Tbilisi Univ, 390 pp pdf

Nuruyeva T V, Snegovaya N Y, Maharramov M M (2024a) Three new records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan. Acta Biologica Sibirica 10: 1047-1052 pdf

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

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
28-09-2024 Image insert
28-09-2024 Distribution insert Detail
17-04-2015 Image insert