Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Berinda  Roewer, 1928   9 species

Berinda amabilis Roewer, 1928

Description
Male

Resembles B. aegilia. Palp: finger-like retrolateral apophysis of patella, slender retrolateral tibial apophysis, conductor ending as S-shaped, sclerotized band.

Body length male: 5.3-6.9 mm
Female

Resembles B. aegilia. Epigyne: Anterior lateral margins widely curved at sides, small, conical hood at midline. Spermathecae globular with lateral introductory ducts.

Body length female: 5.7-8.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: after moving Talanites aculeatus from the syn. of Berinda amabilis by Khasayeva & Huseynov (2017), all records outside Crete of the latter species are included in Anagraphis pallens
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece (Crete)
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Distribution List
Azerbaijan  Removed (Nuruyeva & Zamani, 2025) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005; Panayiotou et al., 2010) ||| Turkey (Asia)  Removed (Seyyar et al., 2007b; Khasayeva & Huseynov, 2017) |||
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

Khasayeva S I, Huseynov E F (2017) To the study of gnaphosid spiders (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) of Western Azerbaijan with suggestion of two new synonyms. Arthropoda Selecta 26: 125-132 pdf

Murphy J (2007) Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society St Neots, Cambridgeshire, 605 pp. pdf

Nuruyeva T, Zamani A (2025) An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan. Zootaxa 5680: 1-168 pdf

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

Panayiotou E, Kaltsas D, Seyyar O, Chatzaki M (2010) Revision of the genus Berinda (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in the east Mediterranean with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 2362: 44-54 pdf

Seyyar O, Demir H, Topçu A (2007b) Three new ground spider records for the Turkish spider fauna (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Serket 10: 123-124 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

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