Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Gnaphosa  Latreille, 1804   71 species

Gnaphosa mongolica Simon, 1895

Description
Male

Embolus long. Bulbus with apically narrow, curved median apophysis.

Female

Epigyne with diamond shaped scapus.

Additional information

Under stones in the steppe

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Turkey, Russia (Europe) to China
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.

Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Central   (Alekseenko, 2019) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Serbia   (Grbić et al., 2021) ||| Slovakia   (Šestáková et al., 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Seyyar et al., 2008a; Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Alekseenko Y G (2019) [Zoogeographical analysis of araneophauna of steppous plots of the Ulyanovsk region with data on area expansing of several species]. Izvestiya of Saratov University (N. S.) Chemistry Biology Ecology 19: 223-229 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Grbić G, Hänggi A, Krnjajić S (2021) Spiders (Araneae) of Subotica Sandland (Serbia): additional arguments in environmental protection. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 67: 15-61 pdf

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

Ovtsharenko V I, Platnick N I, Song D X (1992) A review of the North Asian ground spiders of the genus Gnaphosa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 212: 1-88 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

Šestáková A, Černecká Ľ, Naumova M, Purgat P, Szita É, Gajdoš P (2022) A review of two very rare ground spiders from sandy habitats, new for Slovakia (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 64: 14-24 pdf

Seyyar O, Ayyildiz N, Topçu A (2008a) Updated checklist of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) of Turkey, with zoogeographical and faunistic remarks. Entomological News 119: 509-520 pdf

Szita É, Samu F, Szinetár C, Dudás G, Botos E, Horváth R, Szalkovski O (2006) New data on the occurrence of Gnaphosa rufula (L. Koch, 1866) and Gnaphosa mongolica Simon, 1895 in Hungary. In C. Deltshev & P. Stoev (eds.), European Arachnology 2005. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica Supplement 1: 329-334 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 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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