Synaphris lehtineni Marusik, Gnelitsa & Kovblyuk, 2005
Description
Male palp relatively short with typical lamella, no tibial apophyses present, tibia round and lying near cymbium. Cymbium capsule-like, bipartite, one part round and covered with hairs, the other one transparent, hairless, semicircular with long furrow. Embolus long, whip-like and thin, roundish at base. Epigyne oval. Vulva with entrance duct twisted 3-4 times and globular receptaculum. Prosoma brown, slightly wrinkled, with black margins. Sternum brown. Chelicerae with big tooth. Opisthosoma grey-brown to black.
Body length male: 0.96-1.09 mmAdditional information
Found in steppy, grassy slope with spiny shrubbery, Crimea. This species constructs a sheet web.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Marusik et al. 2005b)
Pedipalp
(Marusik et al. 2005b)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Lecigne 2023)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2023)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lecigne 2023)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Demircan Aksan & Avşar 2025)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Demircan Aksan & Avşar 2025)
Pedipalp, ventro-retrolateral view
(Demircan Aksan & Avşar 2025)
Epigyne
(Marusik et al. 2005b)
Vulva
(Marusik et al. 2005b)
Vulva
(Marusik et al. 2005b)
Distribution List
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) 
Demircan Aksan N, Avşar J (2025) Three new records for spider (Arachnida: Araneae) fauna of Türkiye. Journal of Anatolian Environmental and Animal Sciences 10: 284-287
Lecigne S (2023) New contribution to the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of Kerkyra (Corfu) and update of the provisional checklist of species from the Ionian Island. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 38 (1, suppl.): 1-51
Marusik Y M, Gnelitsa V A, Kovblyuk M M (2005b) A new species of Synaphris (Araneae, Synaphridae) from Ukraine. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 125-130
Nae A (2015) Synaphris lehtineni, Marusik, Gnelista & Kovliuk, 2005 (Synaphridea, Araneae) - new record for the Romanian fauna. Travaux de l’Institut de Spéologie “Émile Racovitza” 54: 27-31
Naumova M V, Blagoev G, Dimitrov D, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2017) New data on the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 69: 477-481
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2