Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Marinarozelotes  Ponomarev, 2020   18 species

Marinarozelotes lyonneti (Audouin, 1826)

Description

Tibial apophysis distinctly bent. Epigyne with triangular epigynal groove.

Body length male: 4.3-5.1 mm
Body length female: 6.3-7.9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Macaronesia, Mediterranean to Central Asia. Introduced to USA, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, St. Helena
Phenology
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Distribution List
Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Greece   (Bosmans et al., 2009) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Caria et al., 2021) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Malta   (Rehfeldt & Cassar, 2024) ||| Morocco   (Denis, 1956b; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| North Macedonia   (Stefanovska et al., 2008) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019; Barrientos & Febrer, 2017) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Seyyar et al., 2022b; Danışman et al., 2025a; Lecigne, 2011) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

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Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

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Sherwood D, Henrard A, Jocqué R, Fowler L, Marusik Y M, Maddison W, Harvey M S, Hormiga G, Rheims C A, Piacentini L N, Peters M, Stevens N, Joshua D, Scipio-O’Dean C J, Ellick G, Wilkins V, Ashmole M, Ashmole P (2024b) Annotated checklist of the spiders of Saint Helena, with new records, descriptions of unknown sexes, new and restored genera, and two new species (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 19: 1218-1291 pdf

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