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Genus: Gnaphosa Latreille, 1804 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Gnaphosa ukrainica Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Song, 1992

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027311

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Described:

Distribution: Ukraine, Russia (Europe to Central Asia), Azerbaĳan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan

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Holotype: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg (ZISP), Russia m - (Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Song, 1992)

Taxonomic References

Gnaphosa ukrainica Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Song, 1992: 17, f. 49-50 (Dm) Original description

Gnaphosa turkmenica Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Song, 1992: 18, f. 53-54 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027309]

Gnaphosa ukrainica Ponomarev & Tsvetkov, 2004: 93, f. 8 (f)

Gnaphosa ukrainica Kovblyuk, 2005a: 136, f. 8-13 (mf, S of Gnaphosa turkmenica)

Gnaphosa ukrainica Azarkina et al., 2018: 78, f. 3 (m)

Gnaphosa ukrainica Zamani & Marusik, 2018c: 69, f. 2B-C, 3G-H, 4D-F, 5D (mf)

Gnaphosa ukrainica Zamani et al., 2025c: 134, f. 2D-E (f)

References

Azarkina, G. N., Lyubechanskii, I. I., Trilikauskas, L. A., Dudko, R. Y., Bespalov, A. N. & Mordkovich, V. G. (2018). A check-list and zoogeographic analysis of the spider fauna (Arachnida: Aranei) of Novosibirsk Area (West Siberia, Russia). Arthropoda Selecta 27(1): 73-93. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.27.1.11 -- Show included taxa

Kovblyuk, M. M. (2005a). The spider genus Gnaphosa Latreille, 1804 in the Crimea (Aranei: Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 14(2): 133-152. -- Show included taxa

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. -- Show included taxa

Ponomarev, A. V. & Tsvetkov, A. S. (2004). The generalized data on spiders (Aranei) of the Nature Research "Rostovski". Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Zapovednika "Rostovskii" 3: 84-104. -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2018c). The first report on the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Lut Desert, Iran. Acta Arachnologica 67(2): 67-75. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.67.67 -- 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
2024-03-11	Species distribution update	Esyunin, Ponomarev & Kabdrakhimov, 2024	Old value
2018-12-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani & Marusik, 2018c
2018-12-21	Species distribution update	Zamani & Marusik, 2018c	Old value
2018-03-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Azarkina et al., 2018
2018-03-25	Species distribution update	Azarkina et al., 2018	Old value