Megalepthyphantes pseudocollinus Saaristo, 1997

Fig. 1 D

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 – 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.