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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Gnaphosa  Latreille, 1804   71 species

Gnaphosa orites Chamberlin, 1922

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027268

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Description

Embolus narrow. Bulbus with narrow median apophysis and hook-shaped conductor. Lateral epigynal pockets relatively short

Body length male: 4.7-5.3 mm
Body length female: 8-8.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): North America, Northern Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East)
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Almquist 2007)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Almquist 2007)

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male Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Almquist 2007)

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female Epigyne
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Almquist 2007)

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female Vulva
(Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Almquist 2007)

Distribution List
Azerbaijan  Removed (Otto, 2022; Nuruyeva & Zamani, 2025) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Northern   (Koponen et al., 1998) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 pdf

Almquist S (2007) Swedish Araneae, part 2 – families Dictynidae to Salticidae. Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 63(2006): 285-601 pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Koponen S, Marusik Y M, Tanasevitch A V (1998) New data on the spider fauna of the Polar Urals (Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 6: 109-119 pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Nuruyeva T, Zamani A (2025) An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan. Zootaxa 5680: 1-168 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

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

Updates
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18-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
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