Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Berlandina  Dalmas, 1922   15 species

Berlandina nabozhenkoi Ponomarev & Tsvetkov, 2006

Description
Male

Prosoma yellow with grey stripes. Sternum and legs yellow. Opisthosoma dorsally with 4 light stripes.

Body length male: 5.5 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 2.35 mm, prosoma width: 1.65 mm.

Body length female: 7.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Turkey, Russia (Europe), Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran
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.

Azerbaijan   (Nuruyeva et al., 2026) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2024c) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Seyyar & Demir, 2020d; Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Nuruyeva T V, Snegovaya N Y, Aliyeva A R (2026) Nine new records of spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from Azerbaijan. Acta Biologica Sibirica 12: 133-143 pdf

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

Ponomarev A V (2008b) The additional data to the spider fauna (Aranei) of the south-east of Russian plain. Vestnik Yuzhnogo Nauchnogo Tsentra Rossijskaja Akademija Nauk, Rostov 4: 78-86 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, Bastaev V V, Dubovikoff D A, Shmatko V Y (2018a) On a small collection of spiders (Aranei) from the Astrakhan Reserve (Russia). Arthropoda Selecta 27: 244-256 pdf

Ponomarev A V, Tsvetkov A (2006) New and rare spiders of family Gnaphosidae (Aranei) from a southeast of Europe. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 2: 5-13 pdf

Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Makharadze G, Baznikin A (2024c) New and interesting spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from Vashlovani National Park and Chachuna Managed Reserve (Georgia). Caucasiana 3: 183-213 pdf

Seyyar O, Demir H (2020d) Berlandina nabozhenkoi Ponomarev & Tsvetkov, 2006 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) is a new spider record from Turkey. Arthropods 9: 92-97 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

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