Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Shaitan  Kovblyuk, Kastrygina & Marusik, 2013   1 species

Shaitan elchini  Kovblyuk, Kastrygina & Marusik, 2013

Description
Male

Prosoma yellow, ovoid, eye region slightly darkened, prosoma length: 2 mm. Chelicerae light brown, with conspicuous frontal setae, promargin with 1 denticle, retromargin with 2 denticles. Sternum white-yellow, ovoid. Legs yellow, except tarsi I-II slightly darker. Opisthosoma without scutum.

Body length male: 4.2 mm
Female

Colouration and chelicerae as in males. Prosoma length: 1.9 mm.

Body length female: 5.4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Azerbaijan, 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.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) |||
References

Kovblyuk M M, Kastrygina Z A, Marusik Y M (2013b) A new genus Shaitan elchini gen. et sp.n. (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) from Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Arthropoda Selecta 22: 145-151 pdf

Kuzmin E A, Esyunin S L (2016a) The first record of Shaitan (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) for Russia. Bulletin of Perm University, Biology 1: 22-28 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 (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

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
17-05-2016 Distribution update Detail
20-08-2013 Datasheet update Detail
20-08-2013 Image insert
20-08-2013 Distribution update Detail