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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Berinda  Roewer, 1928   9 species

Berinda amabilis Roewer, 1928

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026679

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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)
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Murphy 2007)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Murphy 2007)

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male Chelicera
(Murphy 2007)

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male Opisthosoma
(Murphy 2007)

species

female Epigyne
(Murphy 2007)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Murphy 2007)

species

female Sternum
(Murphy 2007)

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female Habitus
(Murphy 2007)

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Ocular area
(Murphy 2007)

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Spinnerets
(Murphy 2007)

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.

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

Updates
18-08-2025 Distribution insert Detail
10-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
10-08-2025 Distribution insert Detail
10-07-2025 Distribution update Detail
04-03-2019 Distribution update Detail
05-02-2019 Distribution update Detail
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail