Megalepthyphantes pseudocollinus Saaristo, 1997

Nadolny, Anton A. & Turbanov, Ilya S., 2025, A review of cave spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Crimean Mountains, with descriptions of two new species, ZooKeys 1230, pp. 37-80 : 37-80

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https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1230.137029

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14976099

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scientific name

Megalepthyphantes pseudocollinus Saaristo, 1997
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Megalepthyphantes pseudocollinus Saaristo, 1997 View in CoL

Fig. 1 D View Figure 1

Material examined.

2 ♀♀ ( TNU 10257/2 ), Crimea, nr Sevastopol, NW slope of Ai-Petri Yaila, Baidarskaya Valley, nr Rodnikovskoye Vil., entrance to Skelskaya Cave , 29. IX. 2020, A. A. Nadolny leg.

Distribution.

West and Central Palaearctic nemoral: from Central Europe to West Siberia and from Finland to Iran ( Kovblyuk and Kastrygina 2015; Nentwig et al. 2024).

Records from the Crimean caves.

Map (Fig. 17 B View Figure 17 – white circle). Skelskaya Cave in Baidarskaya Valley (present data).

Ecology.

In Crimea, M. pseudocollinus was reported from the Karadag Nature Reserve in Feodosia District ( Kovblyuk and Kastrygina 2015). Previously, this species was referred to as a trogloxene in Kungurskaya Ledyanaya (= Kungur Ice) Cave in Perm Oblast of Russia ( Pankov et al. 2009). Since in Crimea the species was found at the cave entrance, it is likely to be a trogloxene species.