Philodromus emarginatus (Schrank, 1803)

Seropian, Armen, Bulbulashvili, Natalia, Krammer, Hans-Joachim, Thormann, Jana, Hein, Nils, Karalashvili, Elisabeth, Kachlishvili, Nino & Datunashvili, Anastasia, 2024, 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, pp. 89-118 : 89

Philodromus emarginatus (Schrank, 1803)

Material examined.

GEORGIA - Mtskheta-Mtianeti • 1♀; Kazbegi mun., Stepantsminda ; N42.671°, E44.61°; 2050 m a.s.l.; leg. Wipfler B.; 7 Jul. 2019; ZFMK-TIS 8008608 (BOLD:AAY8533) .

Barcoding.

A single barcode was obtained from the specimen ZFMK-TIS 8008608 (BOLD:AAY8533) with the nearest neighbor in BOLD Systems P. emarginatus from Finland and Norway (BOLD:AAY8533, p -distance 0.15%).

Remarks.

This species has a transpalaearctic range ( Nentwig et al. 2023; WSC 2023), distributed throughout the whole Caucasus, with a single record in Georgia (Tbilisi) ( Nentwig et al. 2023; Otto 2023). It is the first record of P. emarginatus in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region and the second in the country.