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Synaphridae  Wunderlich, 1986 / Synaphris  Simon, 1894   4 species

Synaphris lehtineni  Marusik, Gnelitsa & Kovblyuk, 2005

Description

Male palp relatively short with typical lamella, no tibial apophyses present, tibia round and lying near cymbium. Cymbium capsule-like, bipartite, one part round and covered with hairs, the other one transparent, hairless, semicircular with long furrow. Embolus long, whip-like and thin, roundish at base. Epigyne oval. Vulva with entrance duct twisted 3-4 times and globular receptaculum. Prosoma brown, slightly wrinkled, with black margins. Sternum brown. Chelicerae with big tooth. Opisthosoma grey-brown to black.

Body length male: 0.96-1.09 mm
Additional information

Found in steppy, grassy slope with spiny shrubbery, Crimea. This species constructs a sheet web.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Greece
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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   (Blagoev et al., 2018; Naumova et al., 2017) ||| Greece   (Lecigne, 2023) ||| Romania   (Nae, 2015) ||| Ukraine   (Marusik et al., 2005b) |||
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) pdf

Lecigne S (2023) New contribution to the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of Kerkyra (Corfu) and update of the provisional checklist of species from the Ionian Island. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 38 (1, suppl.): 1-51 pdf

Marusik Y M, Gnelitsa V A, Kovblyuk M M (2005b) A new species of Synaphris (Araneae, Synaphridae) from Ukraine. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 125-130 pdf

Nae A (2015) Synaphris lehtineni, Marusik, Gnelista & Kovliuk, 2005 (Synaphridea, Araneae) - new record for the Romanian fauna. Travaux de l’Institut de Spéologie “Émile Racovitza” 54: 27-31 pdf

Naumova M V, Blagoev G, Dimitrov D, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2017) New data on the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 69: 477-481 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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