Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Gnaphosa  Latreille, 1804   71 species

Gnaphosa saurica Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Song, 1992

Description

Embolus narrow, bearing double-headed tubercle. Bulbus with narrow median apophysis. Retrolateral tibial apophysis with parallel lateral margins. Epigyne with narrow hood and wide median part

Body length male: 6.6-8.7 mm
Body length female: 6.6-8.7 mm
Additional information

N.B. After Levy (1995) figures of female in Ovtsharenko et al. (1992) show Gnaphosa dolosa (= Gnaphosa barroisi)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Ukraine, Caucasus, Iran, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia
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Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Tuneva & Esyunin, 2003a) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1997) Remarks on the Ural spider fauna, 6. New data on the taxonomy and faunistics of gnaphosid spiders of the south Urals (Arachnida Aranei Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 5(3/4): 105-111 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

Tuneva T K, Esyunin S L (2003a) A review of the Gnaphosidae fauna of the Urals (Aranei), 3. New species and new records, chiefly from the south Urals. Arthropoda Selecta 11: 223-234 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
26-08-2020 Distribution update Detail
01-12-2013 Distribution update Detail