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Cybaeidae  Banks, 1892 / Cryphoeca  Thorell, 1870   9 species

Cryphoeca thaleri Wunderlich, 1995

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021879

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Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown, anterior part distinctly narrower. Sternum medium brown. Legs light to medium brown, with darker annulations. Opisthosoma egg-shaped, dorsum dark grey-brown with more or less distinct light transverse bands, venter distinctly lighter.

Female

Female unknown.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Turkey, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1995h)

species

male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)

species

male Bulbus, ventral view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)

species

male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 1995h)

species

female Epigyne
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)

species

female Epigyne
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Brignoli 1978a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)

species

female Vulva, ventro-caudal view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)

Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Ponomarev & Mikhailov, 2025) ||| Georgia   (Ponomarev & Mikhailov, 2025) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev & Chumachenko , 2014) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1978a) Ragni di Turchia V. Specie nuove o interesanti, cavernicole ed epigee, di varie famiglie (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 85: 461-541 pdf

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

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, Chumachenko Y A (2014) Spiders (Aranei) in herpetobiont mesofauna of the Northwest Caucasus. The South of Russia: Ecology, Development 2014(2): 95-101 pdf

Ponomarev A V, Mikhailov K G (2025) Spiders of the genus Cryphoeca Thorell, 1870 (Aranei: Cybaeidae) (Aranei: Cybaeidae) in the Caucasus. Arthropoda Selecta 34: 604-610 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Wunderlich J (1995h) Beschreibung einer bisher unbekannten Art der Gattung Cryphoeca Thorell 1870 aus der Türkei (Arachnida: Araneae: Dictynoidea: ?Dictynidae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 4: 719-721 pdf

Updates
19-01-2026 Image insert
19-01-2026 Distribution insert Detail
16-11-2024 Distribution update Detail
05-01-2020 Datasheet update Detail
21-10-2015 Distribution update Detail