Amaurobiidae  Thorell, 1869 / Amaurobius  C. L. Koch, 1837   38 species

Amaurobius strandi  Charitonov, 1937

Description

Tibial apophysis with median process, stretched, straight. Vulva with entrance ducts almost rectangularly bent laterally on posterior end. Prosoma yellow-brown, female: with dark brown head region. Sternum yellow-brown. Chelicerae brown. Legs yellow-brown, to brown. Opisthosoma yellow-grey with dark grey pattern.

Body length male: 3.9-6.3 mm
Body length female: 6.5-8.0 mm
Additional information

In litter of deciduous trees and amongst grass

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece, Bulgaria, Ukraine
in autumn, winter and spring, most records in April and October
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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.

Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Moldova   (Vasiliev & Mikhailov, 2023) ||| Russia, Southern  Removed (Otto, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Türkeş et al., 2023b) ||| Ukraine   (Kovblyuk et al., 2016) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

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

Dolejš P (2023) A historical collection of Greek spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) in the National Museum of the Czech Republic. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 66: 17-23 pdf

Helsdingen P J van, IJland S, Komnenov M (2018) Inventory of the spiders (Araneae) of the border region of northern Greece with Albania and FYR Macedonia. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 37: 5-23 pdf

Kovblyuk M M (2002a) Redescription of Amaurobius strandi Charitonov, 1937, stat.n. from the Crimea (Aranei: Amaurobiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 10: 213-216 pdf

Kovblyuk M M, Gnelitsa V A, Nadolny A A, Kastrygina Z A, Kukushkin, O V (2016) Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of the Karadag Nature Reserve (Crimea). Ekosystemy 3(33): 3-288 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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

Türkeş T, Ballı Z D, Seyyar O (2023b) First record of Amaurobius strandi (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) from Türkiye. Serket 19: 378-381 pdf

Vasiliev A I, Mikhailov K G (2023) Annotated checklist of spiders (Araneae) of the Republic of Moldova. Invertebrate Zoology 20: 307-342 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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