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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Gnaphosa  Latreille, 1804   70 species

Gnaphosa petrobia  L. Koch, 1872

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027273

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Description

Bulbus with small thorn, not visible in ventral view. Epigyne with bent lateral margins. Prosoma black-brown. Opisthosoma dark brown to black-brown.

Body length male: 6.7-7 mm
Body length female: 8-10.9 mm
Additional information

in stony debris and meadow fragments, high alpine species up to > 3000 m

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Europe, Iran
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Grimm 1985)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Grimm 1985)

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male Tip of bulbus
(Grimm 1985)

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female Epigyne
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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female Epigyne
(Grimm 1985)

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female Vulva
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Grimm 1985)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Austria   (no references) ||| France   (no references) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a) ||| Ukraine   (Mikhailov, 2013) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 21 February 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Grimm U (1985) Die Gnaphosidae Mitteleuropas (Arachnida, Araneae). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 26: 1-318 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

Ovtsharenko V I, Platnick N I, Song D X (1992) A review of the North Asian ground spiders of the genus Gnaphosa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 212: 1-88 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
04-06-2025 Distribution update Detail
14-01-2025 Image insert