Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Parasyrisca  Schenkel, 1963   9 species

Parasyrisca vinosa (Simon, 1878)

Description

Tibial apophysis with diverging and pointed branches. Colour brown (living specimens eventually darker).

Body length male: 6-9 mm
Body length female: 6-9.1 mm
Additional information

in the western Alps in forest zone and in alpine to nivale region

Frequency: Very rarely found

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Records outside of the Alps and the Pyrenees are misidentifications (Marusik & Fomichev 2016)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe (Alps, Pyrenees)
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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.

Andorra   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| France   (Marusik & Fomichev, 2016a) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) ||| Turkey (Asia)  Removed (Danışman et al., 2025a; Marusik & Fomichev, 2016a) |||
References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 22 July 2025], 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

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

Marusik Y M, Fomichev A A (2016a) A survey of East Palaearctic Gnaphosidae (Araneae). 7. Review of the Parasyrisca vinosa-group. Biological Bulletin of Bogdan Chmelnitskiy Melitopol State Pedagogical University 6: 110-118 pdf

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

Ovtsharenko V I, Platnick N I, Marusik Y M (1995) A review of the Holarctic ground spider genus Parasyrisca (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). American Museum Novitates 3147: 1-55 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
10-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
21-11-2022 Distribution update Detail
21-11-2022 Distribution insert Detail
09-11-2020 Image insert
09-11-2020 Distribution update Detail
27-06-2018 Distribution update Detail