Liocranidae  Simon, 1897 / Liocranoeca  Wunderlich, 1999   4 species

Liocranoeca spasskyi Ponomarev, 2007

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 2.4 mm, prosoma width: 1.65 mm.

Body length male: 5.15 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 2 mm, prosoma width: 1.55 mm.

Body length female: 4.6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia (Europe, Caucasus)
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Bulgaria   (Naumova & Genchev, 2022) ||| Moldova   (Vasiliev et al., 2025) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Naumova M, Genchev V (2022) Review of the spiders, pseudoscorpions and scorpions in the region of Plovdiv, S Bulgaria (Arachnida: Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones & Scorpiones). In: Mollov, I., Georgiev, D. & Todorov, O. (eds.) Faunistic diversity of the city of Plovdiv (Bulgaria), volume 2 - vertebrates & invertebrates. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Plovdiv, Supplement 2, pp. 83-110. pdf

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

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 (2007a) New spiders (Aranei) from the south-east of Europe. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 3: 3-7 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

Vasiliev A, Gajdoš P, Izverscaia T, Ghendov V (2025) First records of three rare spider species (Araneae) from Chisinau new to the Republic of Moldova: Liocranoeca spasskyi, Marinarozelotes manytchensis and Oecobius rhodiensis. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 68: 253-262 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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