Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Marinarozelotes  Ponomarev, 2020   18 species

Marinarozelotes malkini  (Platnick & Murphy, 1984)

Description

Embolus curved, obliquely oriented. Anterior and median epigynal
ridges equal in length. Prosoma and legs dark brown. Tarsus brown, white distally. Opisthosoma grey, with six yellow sigillae in two rows

Body length male: 3.38-3.58 mm
Body length female: 5.88-7.97 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Romania, Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Ukraine, Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Turkey, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan
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.

Albania   (Naumova et al., 2016b; Blick, 2018) ||| Azerbaijan   (Ponomarev & Shmatko, 2020a) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Georgia   (Ponomarev & Shmatko, 2020a; Seropian et al., 2025b) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Romania   (De Spiegelaere & Bosmans, 2009) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev & Shmatko, 2020a; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| 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

Blick T (2018) A small collection of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the River Vjosa, Albania – with an updated spider checklist of Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 213-232 pdf

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 22 July 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

De Spiegelaere W, Bosmans R (2009) Spider fauna in a grass dune remnant at the Black Sea coast (Romania), presenting seven new species for the Romanian fauna including the first description of the female Harpactea alexandrae Lazarov, 2006 (Dysderidae). Analele Științifice Ale Universității "Al. I. Cuza" Din Iași, Biologie animală 55: 7-16 pdf

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

Naumova M, Hristovski S, Hristov G H (2016b) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Prespa National Park, Albania. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 68: 503-511 pdf

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

Platnick N I, Murphy J A (1984) A revision of the spider genera Trachyzelotes and Urozelotes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). American Museum Novitates 2792: 1-30 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

Ponomarev A V, Prokopenko E V, Ivliev P P, Shmatko V Y (2016) Spiders (Aranei) of the coast of Taganrog Bay (the Sea of Azov) and the Don River delta. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 12: 3-28 pdf

Ponomarev A V, Shmatko V Y (2020a) A review of spiders of the genera Trachyzeloes [sic] Lohmander, 1944 and Marinarozelotes Ponomarev, gen. n. (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) from the southeast of the Russian Plain and the Caucasus. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 16: 125-139 pdf

Seropian A, Ninua L, Rostiashvili I, Bulbulashvili N, Makharadze G (2025b) New data on spiders (Arthropoda, Arachnida, Araneae) of Georgia with description of a new species from Tegenaria lyncea group. Caucasiana 4: 65-80 pdf

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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