Pseudicius pseudocourtauldi

Pseudicius spiders have two parts to their body, a cephalothorax and an abdomen. The male Pseudicius pseudocourtauldi has a yellowish-brown carapace, the hard upper side of the cephalothorax, that is typically 2.28 mm (0.090 in) long and 1.5 mm (0.059 in) wide. It is marked with a band of white scales near its fovea and a line of white scales on its edges. There are also white scales on the spider's eye field and black areas around its eyes. Its sternum, or the underside of its cephalothorax, is brown. It has a white hairy clypeus, or face. The spider's mouthparts, including its chelicerae, labium, and maxillae, are also brown.^[2]

The male's abdomen is larger than its carapace typically 2.6 mm (0.10 in) long and 1.65 mm (0.065 in) wide. Its topside is brown with two wide white bands running down its length and its underside is brownish with two narrow yellow stripes from front to back. Its book lung covers are yellow and its spinnerets are brown. Its front legs are brown and nearly twice the length of the others, which are yellow.^[2]

Its copulatory organs are unusual. It has a bulbous palpal bulb with a particularly large bulge towards the bottom that juts away from the cymbium. The top of the bulb forms into a pointed and curved embolus that points towards a valley in the cymbium. On the palpal tibia, there are two appendages, or apophyses, one blunt and the other shaped like a scoop.^[11] It is the shape of these apophyses that most clearly distinguishes the species from its relatives.^[4][2]

The female's yellowish-brown carapace is typically 2.03 mm (0.080 in) long and 1.43 mm (0.056 in) wide is entirely covered in white scales and its sternum is brownish-yellow, similar to its chelicerae, labium and maxillae. Its clypeus has a covering of even more dense hairs. Its abdomen is larger than the male, typically 3.4 mm (0.13 in) long and 1.98 mm (0.078 in) wide, and is yellow with a pattern of two bands formed of brown scales visible on the topside. Unlike the male, all the spider's legs are yellow and marked with brown patterns.^[2]

The female can also be distinguished from its relatives by its copulatory organs.^[2] Its epigyne, the external visible part of its copulatory organs, has two pockets placed side by side and tow small copulatory openings. These lead via short insemination ducts to unusually-shaped bean-like spermathecae or receptacles.^[11]

Pseudicius spiders can be found across the Afrotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic realms.^[3] Pseudicius pseudocourtauldi is endemic to Armenia.^[1] It is restricted to the Syunik Province and the first species in the genus that has been found in the country.^[12] The male holotype was found near Meghri in 1989 living in an almond plantation. Other examples have also been found nearby.^[2] Spiders in the genus typically live on rocks or the barks of trees.^[13]