Philodromidae, Thorell, 1870

Grbić, Gordana, Hänggi, Ambros & Krnjajić, Slobodan, 2021, Spiders (Araneae) Of Subotica Sandland (Serbia): Additional Arguments In Environmental Protection, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 67 (1), pp. 15-61 : 35

Family Philodromidae

Pulchellodromus ruficapillus (Simon, 1885)

Material: 13.06.2014 M3 1m; 16.07.2014 M3 1f.

Determination: MUSTER et al. 2007, KASTRYGINA &KOVBLYUK 2014, MEZŐFI &MARKÓ 2018.

Global distribution: Mediterranean to Kazakhstan.

Habitat: Usually in wetlands or along riverbanks and also on seashores ( MUSTER et al. 2007).

Note: This species was thoroughly redescribed by MUSTER et al. (2007) as Philodromus ruficapillus in the revision of the P. pulchellus species-group, but 7 years later ( KASTRYGINA & KOVBLYUK 2014) it was redirected into the Pulchellodromus species group. According to MUSTER et al. (2007) in contrast to most other running crab-spiders that live on stems or foliage of woody plants, this spider is predominantly a ground-living predator. Some of the old records thatMUSTER et al. (2007) rechecked suggested a preference for wetlands, but KASTRYGINA & KOVBLYUK (2014) found the species in semi-desert steppe in the Crimea. In our material, P. ruficapillus was found in lowland peat meadows situated along the border with Hungary and the Körös River, with the dominant plant association being Molinietum caeruleae. This species is not treated in any of the consulted Red List of species.