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

"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.

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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