Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Callilepis  Westring, 1874   6 species

Callilepis cretica  (Roewer, 1928)

Description
Male

Prosoma chestnut brown, covered with light hairs. Prosoma length: 1.4 mm. Sternum brown. Legs black-brown, except tarsi reddish yellow. Opisthosoma black, male anteriorly with indistinct small, triangular scutum.

Female

Colouration as in males. Prosoma length: 1.4 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Kosovo, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Azerbaijan
Phenology
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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.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Greece   (Chatzaki et al., 2002a) ||| Greece / Crete   (Chatzaki et al., 2002a) ||| Kosovo   (Geci & Naumova, 2021b) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Seyyar et al., 2006a; Danışman et al., 2024) |||
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

Chatzaki M, Thaler K, Mylonas M (2002a) Ground spiders (Gnaphosidae; Araneae) of Crete (Greece). Taxonomy and distribution. I. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 109: 559-601 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Geci D, Naumova M (2021b) A preliminary checklist of the spiders of Kosovo (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologia Balkanica, Special Edition 4: 11-28 pdf

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Naumova M, Blagoev G, Deltshev D (2021) Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984: 228-257 pdf

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

Seyyar O (2021) Notes on Callilepis cretica (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) and a new locality in Turkey. Serket 17: 425-428 pdf

Seyyar O, Topçu A, Demir H (2006a) New records of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Anatolia. Zoology in the Middle East 38: 118-120 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

Wunderlich J (1977a) Zur Synonymie südeuropäischer Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneida: Theridiidae, Linyphiidae, Gnaphosidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 57: 289-293 pdf

Updates
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