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Gnaphosidae  Pocock, 1898 / Gnaphosa  Latreille, 1804   69 species

Gnaphosa taurica  Thorell, 1875

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027305

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Description

Prosoma and legs light brown, eye region, chelicerae, sternum, labium and palpal endites dark brown. Opisthosoma grey. Book lung area yellow. Spinnerets grey-brown. Scutum small, greyish yellow.

Body length male: 8-10.5 mm
Body length female: 11-12 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2021): Bulgaria to China
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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male Pedipalp
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

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male Bulbus, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

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female Epigyne
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

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female Vulva
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2020) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2020) ||| North Macedonia   (no references) ||| Russia, Central   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Tuneva & Esyunin, 2003a) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2020) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
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

Kovblyuk M M (2005a) The spider genus Gnaphosa Latreille, 1804 in the Crimea (Aranei: Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 14: 133-152 pdf

Otto S (2020) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 03.2020. 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

Tuneva T K, Esyunin S L (2003a) A review of the Gnaphosidae fauna of the Urals (Aranei), 3. New species and new records, chiefly from the south Urals. Arthropoda Selecta 11: 223-234 pdf

WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (03.01.2021) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
26-08-2020 Distribution update Detail