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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Gnaphosa  Latreille, 1804   71 species

Gnaphosa ukrainica Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Song, 1992

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027311

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Description

Embolus broad, sharply pointed apically. Epigyne with squared anterior part, median part narrow.

Colouration pale yellow-grey. Chelicerae and Scutum light yellow-brown. Female without scutum.

Body length male: 4.6 mm
Body length female: 5.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Ukraine, Russia (Europe to Central Asia), Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
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, ventral view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azarkina et al. 2018a)

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male Bulbus, ventral 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 Epigyne
(Zamani et al. 2025b)

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female Vulva
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Zamani et al. 2025b)

Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Zamani et al., 2025b) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Azarkina G N, Lyubechanskii I I, Trilikauskas L A, Dudko R Y, Bespalov A N, Mordkovich V G (2018a) A check-list and zoogeographic analysis of the spider fauna (Arachnida: Aranei) of Novosibirsk Area (West Siberia, Russia). Arthropoda Selecta 27: 73-93 pdf

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

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

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

Zamani, A., Nuruyeva, T., Snegovaya, N., Freyhof, J., Mustafayev, N. & Marusik, Y. M (2025b) New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20: 132-137 pdf

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