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Amaurobiidae  Thorell, 1869 / Amaurobius  C. L. Koch, 1837   40 species

Amaurobius ausobskyi Thaler & Knoflach, 1998

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022590

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Description
Female

Prosoma brownish-yellow. Legs not annulated. Opisthosoma uniformly greyish, without pattern. Epigyne with narrow median plate. Vulva strongly sclerotized, sperm ducts distinct, receptacles separated by less than their diameter.

prosoma length: 3.0-3.5 mm, prosoma width: 2.0-2.2 mm.

Body length female: 7.9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece, Turkey
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Danışman et al. 2026a)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Danışman et al. 2026a)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Danışman et al. 2026a)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Danışman et al. 2026a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Danışman et al. 2026a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Danışman et al. 2026a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Danışman et al. 2026a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Danışman et al. 2026a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998d)

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female Epigyne/vulva, dorsal view
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998d)

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female Epigyne/vulva, aboral view
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998d)

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female Epigyne
(Danışman et al. 2026a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Danışman et al. 2026a)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Danışman et al. 2026a)

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.

Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2026a) |||
References

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Danışman T, Coşar İ, Kunt K B, Yağmur E A (2026a) A new species of Amaurobius (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) from the central Anatolian region of Turkey, with the redescription of Amaurobius ausobskyi Thaler & Knoflach. Journal of Natural History 60: 365-379 pdf

Thaler K, Knoflach B (1998d) Two new species and new records of the genus Amaurobius (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) from Greece. In Selden, P. A. (ed.), Proceedings of the 17th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Edinburgh 1997. Edinburgh, pp. 107-114 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
24-01-2026 Image insert
24-01-2026 Distribution insert Detail
04-06-2025 Distribution update Detail
09-05-2016 Datasheet update Detail