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Gnaphosidae  Pocock, 1898 / Gnaphosa  Latreille, 1804   66 species

Gnaphosa montana  (L. Koch, 1866)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027257

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Description

Epigyne with angularly bent lateral margins. Prosoma red-brown to black-brown, eye region darker. Legs red-brown to black-brown, distal leg segments brighter and more reddish. Opisthosoma red-brown to black-brown.

Body length male: 10.5-11.3 mm
Body length female: 9.3-13.7 mm
Additional information

Mountainous to high-alpine species, in coniferous forests under bark

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2019): Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH), ventral view
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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male Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH), ventral view
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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male Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH)
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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male Pedipalp
(Roberts 1998)

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female Epigyne
(Noordam 1992)

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female Epigyne (courtesy of the AMNH)
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1998)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva (courtesy of the AMNH)
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Tullgren 1946)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018)

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2019) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2018 [last updated 1 January 2019], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Noordam A P (1992) Gnaphosidae (Araneae) of the Netherlands, drawings, some notes, and some thoughts about ant-mimicry. Published by the author.

Otto S (2017) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 08.2017. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Ovtsharenko V I, Platnick N I, Song D X (1992) A review of the North Asian ground spiders of the genus Gnaphosa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 212: 1-88

Pantini P, Isaia M (2018) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version June 2018). online at http://www.museoscienzebergamo.it/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=96&Itemid=94 pdf

Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion Natuur Baarn, Netherlands

Tullgren A (1946) Svensk spindelfauna. 3. Egentiliga spinddlar. Araneae Fam 5-7. Clubionidae, Zoridae och Gnaphosidae. pl. I - XXI Stockholm (Entomol Fören): 1-141

World Spider Catalog (2018) World Spider Catalog, version 19.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (15.07.2018) doi: 10.24436/2

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