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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Gnaphosa  Latreille, 1804   71 species

Gnaphosa alpica Simon, 1878

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027190

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Description

Tibial apophysis as long as tibia. Epigyne with bar-like protruding corners on posterior margin. Vulva reddish brown. Femur orange. Tarsus darker.

Body length male: 8.0-9.0 mm
Body length female: 8.0-9.2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Restricted to the Alps (Řezáč et al., 2018a)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria)
Figures
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male Pedipalp, dorso-retrolateral view
(Řezáč et al. 2018a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Řezáč et al. 2018a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Řezáč et al. 2018a)

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female Epigyne
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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female Epigyne
(Řezáč et al. 2018a)

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female Epigyne
(Grimm 1985)

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female Vulva
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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female Vulva
(Řezáč et al. 2018a)

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female Vulva
(Řezáč et al. 2018a)

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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   (Thaler & Knoflach, 2004b) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007; Danflous et al., 2020a; Danflous et al., 2020b) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

Danflous S, Crowther R, Simmons Z M (2020a) Identité de Gnaphosa molesta / Identity of Gnaphosa molesta (Araneae; Gnaphosidae). Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 5: 2-9 pdf

Danflous S, Déjean S, Guerbaa K, Jacquet C, Lecigne S, Montagne D, Montardi Y, Villepoux O (2020b) De araneis Galliae IV. Actualisation du référentiel des araignées de France – première note. Espèces absentes de France ou mises en nomen dubium. Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 5: 10-32 pdf

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

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 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

Řezáč M, Růžička V, Oger P, Řezáčová V (2018a) European species of the Gnaphosa alpica complex (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 4370: 289-294 pdf

Thaler K, Knoflach B (2004b) Zur Faunistik der Spinnen (Araneae) von Österreich: Gnaphosidae, Thomisidae (Dionycha pro parte). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 36: 417-484 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
17-12-2025 Datasheet update Detail
24-07-2025 Distribution update Detail
14-01-2025 Image insert
05-10-2020 Distribution update Detail
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