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Genus: Cesonia Simon, 1893 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Cesonia aspida Chatzaki, 2002

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038045

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Described:

Distribution: Greece (Crete), Cyprus, Turkey, Azerbaĳan

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Natural History Museum of the University of Crete (NHMC), Heraklion, Greece m - (Chatzaki, Thaler & Mylonas, 2002b)
Paratype: Natural History Museum of the University of Crete (NHMC), Heraklion, Greece 1f - (Chatzaki, Thaler & Mylonas, 2002b)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1m 1f (ARTO-0027437) - (Chatzaki, Thaler & Mylonas, 2002b)

Taxonomic References

Cesonia aspida Chatzaki in Chatzaki, Thaler & Mylonas, 2002b: 624, f. 63-68 (Dmf) Original description

Cesonia aspida Seyyar, Ayyildiz & Topçu, 2007: 25, f. 1, 3a-d (mf)

Cesonia aspida Wunderlich, 2011: 41, f. 64-65 (mf)

Cesonia aspida Lecigne, 2016a: 115, f. 11G-I (m)

Cesonia aspida Zamani et al., 2025c: 132, f. 2A-B (f)

References

Chatzaki, M., Thaler, K. & Mylonas, M. (2002b). Ground spiders (Gnaphosidae, Araneae) of Crete and adjacent areas of Greece. Taxonomy and distribution. II. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 109(3): 603-633. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.79612 -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S. (2016a). Contribution à la connaissance de l'aranéofaune (Araneae) de Crète (Grèce) et description de la femelle inconnue de Neaetha absheronica Logunov & Guseinov, 2002 (Salticidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 30(3, 2015): 95-118. -- Show included taxa

Seyyar, O., Ayyildiz, N. & Topçu, A. (2007). Notes on Cesonia, a newly recorded genus for the Asian spider fauna (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 34: 25-26. doi: 10.5431/aramit3405 -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2011). Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640. [[publ. in April]] -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A., Nuruyeva, T., Snegovaya, N., Freyhof, J., Mustafayev, N. & Marusik, Y. M. (2025c). New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20(1): 132-137. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani et al., 2025c
2025-03-13	Species distribution update	Zamani et al., 2025c	Old value
2016-03-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Lecigne, 2016a