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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Synaphosus  Platnick & Shadab, 1980   9 species

Synaphosus syntheticus (Chamberlin, 1924)

Description
Distribution
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Global distribution (WSC 2026): Libya, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran. Introduced to Cape Verde, Ascension, USA, Mexico
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Distribution List
Egypt   (Ovtsharenko et al., 1994; El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Libya   (Ovtsharenko et al., 1994; Elkrew et al., 2024) |||
References

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369 pdf

Ovtsharenko V I, Levy G, Platnick N I (1994) A review of the ground spider genus Synaphosus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). American Museum Novitates 3095: 1-27 pdf

Sherwood D, Marusik Y M, Sharp A, Ashmole P (2023b) A survey of Gnaphosidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Ascension Island with description of a new species of Australoechemus Schmidt & Piepho, 1994. African Invertebrates 96: 291-302 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

Zamani A, Darvishnia H, Marusik Y M (2023b) New data on cave spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iran, with new species and records. Zootaxa 5361: 345-366 pdf

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