Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Caspicosa  Ponomarev, 2007   1 species

Caspicosa manytchensis Ponomarev, 2007

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 2.75 mm, prosoma width: 1.8 mm.

Body length male: 5.7 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 3.15-3.25 mm, prosoma width: 2.3-2.5 mm.

Body length female: 6.0-6.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Russia (Europe, West Siberia)
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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.

Russia, Central   (Alekseenko, 2019) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Vlasov, 2021) ||| Russia, Southern   (Esyunin et al., 2020b; Ponomarev, 2022) |||
References

Alekseenko Y G (2019) [Zoogeographical analysis of araneophauna of steppous plots of the Ulyanovsk region with data on area expansing of several species]. Izvestiya of Saratov University (N. S.) Chemistry Biology Ecology 19: 223-229 pdf

Esyunin S L, Vlasov S V (2021) [Remarks to the fauna and biotopic distribution of spiders in the Talovskaya steppe]. In: Steppes of Northern Eurasia. Proceedings of the IX international symposium. OSU Publishing House, Orenburg. pp. 300-304 pdf

Esyunin S L, Vlassov J P, Ponomarev A V (2020b) Taxonomic remarks on the genus Caspicosa Ponomarev, 2007 (Aranei: Lycosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 29: 273-282 pdf

Ponomarev A V (2007b) New taxa of spiders (Aranei) from the south of Russia and western Kazakhstan. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 3: 87-95 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

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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