Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Abkhazia

The spider genus Pirata Sundevall, 1833 (Aranei: Lycosidae) in Crimea and Abkhazia

“…Diameter of eggs 0.8. Total length of nymphs 1.01. serve; Krasnaya Polyana), Abkhazia, Georgia [Buchar, 1966;Ovtsharenko, 1979;Mcheidze, 1997;Kovblyuk et al, 2011]. Crimea is the most western part of its range.…”

“…Four species of Pirata were recorded from Crimea: P. hurkai, P. latitans, P. piraticus and P. tenuitarsis [Spassky, 1927;Charitonov, 1932;Kovblyuk, , 2007. Seven species were reported from Caucasus: P. hurkai, P. hygrophilus, P. insularis Emerton, 1885, P. knorri, P. latitans, P. piraticus, P. piscatorius [Ovtsharenko, 1979;Mikhailov, , 1998Guseinov, 1999;Marusik et al, 2003;Ponomarev, Mikhailov, 2007;Ponomarev et al, 2008;Kovblyuk et al, 2011]. Thus, Pirata species in Crimea and Caucasus are studied more or less completely.…”

A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae)

“…Comments. This species is known from the Canary Islands across the entire Mediterranean to the northern Caucasus (Wiehle, 1964), Abkhazia (Kovblyuk, Marusik, Ponomarev, Gnelitsa, & Nadolny, 2011) and Georgia (Otto, 2014). This is the southeasternmost record in the range.…”

Members of Pardosa amentata and P. lugubris species groups in Crimea and Caucasus with notes on P. abagensis (Aranei: Lycosidae)

“…DISTRIBUTION. West and North Caucasus Major: Russia (Adygeya and Northern Ossetia) and Abkhazia [Ovtsharenko, 1979;Ponomarev & Mikhailov, 2007;Kovblyuk et al, 2011].…”