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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Gnaphosa  Latreille, 1804   71 species

Gnaphosa cumensis Ponomarev, 1981

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027212

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Description
Male

Embolus broad, curved. Retrolateral tibial apophysis triangular, pointed. Epigyne with wide pockets and narrow median part.

Prosoma light yellow-brown. Chelicerae and sternum brown. Legs light yellow-brown. Opisthosoma grey, with yellow cardiac mark, as long as half of the opisthosoma, scutum brown.

Body length male: 9-14 mm
Female

Prosoma light yellow-brown. Chelicerae and sternum brown. Legs light yellow-brown. Opisthosoma grey, without scutum.

Body length female: 8-14 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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male Pedipalp
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ponomarev et al. 2017b)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2025b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2025b)

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female Epigyne
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

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female Vulva
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk 2005a)

Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Zamani et al., 2025b) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Kovblyuk M M (2005a) The spider genus Gnaphosa Latreille, 1804 in the Crimea (Aranei: Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 14: 133-152 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. 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 pdf

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 (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, Bragina T M, Shmatko V Y (2017b) New data on spiders (Aranei) of the Naurzum State Natural Reserve (Kostanay Region, Kazakhstan). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 13: 3-10 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Zamani, A., Nuruyeva, T., Snegovaya, N., Freyhof, J., Mustafayev, N. & Marusik, Y. M (2025b) New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20: 132-137 pdf

Updates
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