Metopobactrus prominulus (O. Pickard--Cambridge, 1872)

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

Metopobactrus prominulus (O. Pickard--Cambridge, 1872)

Metopobactrus prominulus Roberts, 1987: 46, figs 14c, 17c (♂♀).

Metopobactrus prominulus Crespo et al., 2018: 166, figs 7a-h (♂♀).

Material examined.

GEORGIA - Mtskheta-Mtianeti • 1♀; Kazbegi mun., Stepantsminda ; N42.655°, E44.649°; 1821 m a.s.l.; leg. Krammer H.-J. & Karalashvili E.; 7 Jul. 2019; ZFMK-TIS 8008075 (BOLD:AFI9848) .

Bacroding. A single barcode was obtained from the specimen ZFMK-TIS 8008075 (BOLD:AFI9848) with the nearest neighbor in BOLD Systems M. prominulus from Georgia (p -distance 1.08%) with private status. The second-best match is M. prominulus from Turkey (p -distance 1.23%) with early-release status.

Remarks.

This species has a holarctic distribution ( Nentwig et al. 2023; WSC 2023). In Georgia, it was known solely from Abkhazia ( Kovblyuk et al. 2011). It is the first record of M. prominulis in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region.

Genus Pelecopsis Simon, 1864