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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Synaphosus  Platnick & Shadab, 1980   9 species

Synaphosus sauvage Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027991

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Description

Embolus long, narrow, strongly twisted, with small process at base. Vulva with strongly twisted spermatheca

Body length male: 2.76 mm
Body length female: 3.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Murphy 2007)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Murphy 2007)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Cárdenas & Barrientos 2011)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Cárdenas & Barrientos 2011)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1994)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1994)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1994)

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male Chelicera
(Murphy 2007)

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male Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Murphy 2007)

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female Epigyne
(Murphy 2007)

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female Epigyne
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1994)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Murphy 2007)

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female Vulva
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1994)

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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.

France   (Ovtsharenko et al., 1994) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (Ovtsharenko et al., 1994; Hänggi, 1999) |||
References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Cárdenas M, Barrientos J A (2011) Arañas del olivar andaluz (Arachnida; Araneae). Aspectos faunísticos. Zoologica Baetica 22: 99-136 pdf

Hänggi A (1999) Nachträge zum "Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen" - 2. Neunachweise von 1993 bis 1999 Archnologische Mitteilungen 18: 17-37 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Murphy J (2007) Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society St Neots, Cambridgeshire, 605 pp. pdf

Ovtsharenko V I, Levy G, Platnick N I (1994) A review of the ground spider genus Synaphosus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). American Museum Novitates 3095: 1-27 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
10-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
26-07-2020 Image insert
26-07-2020 Distribution update Detail
02-02-2017 Image insert