Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Araeoncus  Simon, 1884   24 species

Araeoncus tauricus  Gnelitsa, 2004

Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown. Sternum dark brown, margin somewhat darker. Legs yellow. Opisthosoma dark grey.

Body length male: 3.3 mm
Female

Prosoma grey-brown. Sternum brey-brown, margin darker. Legs yellow. Opisthosoma brown-grey.

Body length female: 3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Bulgaria, Greece (Crete), Turkey, Ukraine
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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) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Türkeş et al., 2015; Danışman & Coşar, 2014) ||| Ukraine   (Gnelitsa, 2004a) |||
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

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147 pdf

Danışman T, Coşar İ (2014) A poorly known species of the spider genus Araeoncus Simon, 1884 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) in Turkey. Serket 14: 71-72 pdf

Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Blagoev G (2004) Spiders (Araneae) from the eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). In Beron, P. & A. Popov (eds.) Biodiversity of Bulgaria. 2. Biodiversity of eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). Pensoft, Sofia, pp. 181-188 pdf

Gnelitsa V A (2004a) Araeoncus tauricus sp.n.: a new spider species (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from the Crimea, Ukraine. In Logunov, D. V. & D. Penney (eds.), European Arachnology 2003 (Proceedings of the 21st European Colloquium of Arachnology, St.-Petersburg, 4-9 August 2003). Arthropoda Selecta, Special Issue 1: 79-82 pdf

Türkeş T, Karabulut H, Demir H, Seyyar O (2015) Contributions to the Linyphiidae fauna of Turkey (Arachnida: Araneae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 39: 560-564 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
02-02-2021 Distribution update Detail
02-02-2021 Image insert
27-11-2014 Distribution update Detail
15-10-2013 Distribution update Detail