Liocranidae  Simon, 1897 / Mesiotelus  Simon, 1897   15 species

Mesiotelus scopensis Drensky, 1935

Description
Distribution
  Presence
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Global distribution (WSC 2026): Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Caucasus, Iraq, Iran
Phenology
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Distribution List
Albania   (Naumova, 2020) ||| Armenia   (Zamani & Marusik, 2021c) ||| Azerbaijan   (Zamani & Marusik, 2021c) ||| Bulgaria   (Zamani et al., 2024c) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2023b) ||| Greece   (Zamani et al., 2024c) ||| North Macedonia   (Drensky, 1935) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev & Shmatko, 2024b) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Coşar et al., 2023a) |||
References

Coşar İ, Danışman T, Erdek M (2023a) The genus Mesiotelus Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Liocranidae) in Turkey. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 19: 9-13 pdf

Drensky P (1935) Über die von Dr. Stanko Karaman in Jugoslavien und besonders in Mazedonien gesammelten Spinnen (Araneae) [Paiatzi (Araneae) seubirani ot Dr Stanko Karaman w Jougoslavia i osobeno w Makedonia]. Izvestiya na Tsarskite Prirodonauchni Instituti v Sofia 8: 97-110 pdf

Naumova M (2020) Descriptions of two new spider species, with new data on the Albanian arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Pseudoscorpiones and Scorpiones). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 72: 3-12 pdf

Ponomarev A V, Shmatko V Y (2024b) Further notes on the spider fauna (Aranei) of southern Russia. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 20: 233-237 pdf

Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Otto S, Krammer H-J, Kachlishvili N, Datunashvili A (2023b) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Zamani A, Fomichev A A, Naumova M, Kaya R S, Marusik Y M (2024c) New taxonomic and faunistic data on Liocranidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of West Palaearctic), with nine new species of Mesiotelus Simon, 1897. Zootaxa 5519: 190-214 pdf

Zamani A, Marusik Y M (2021c) Two new species of Liocranidae (Arachnida: Aranei) from the Caucasus and northern Iran. Arthropoda Selecta 30: 557-564 pdf

Zarikian N A, Propistsova E A, Marusik Y M (2022) On spider families (Arachnida: Araneae) new to Armenia. Israel Journal of Entomology 51: 103-117 pdf

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