Minosia karakumensis (Spassky, 1939)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027595

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Described:

Distribution: Turkey, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan

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  • Holotype: National Natural History Collections, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (HUJ), Israel m (15040) of Minosia simeonica - (Levy, 1995)
Taxonomic References
Pterotricha karakumensis Spassky, 1939a: 142, f. 5 (Df) Original description
Minosia karakumensis Ovtsharenko & Fet, 1980: 446 (T from Pterotricha)
Minosia simeonica Levy, 1995: 924, f. 9-13 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027601]
Minosia simeonica Sadeghi et al., 2016: 6, f. 4b, 5a-b (f)
Minosia simeonica Al-Khazali, 2024: 14, f. 2A-E, 3B-C (f)
Minosia simeonica Nekhaeva, Kim & Yeszhanov, 2024: 400, f. 6F, I (f)
Minosia karakumensis Esyunin et al., 2025: 433, f. 4A-I (mf, S of Minosia simeonica)
Minosia simeonica Coşar, Kaya & Yağmur, 2025: 134, f. 3A-B, 4A-D, 5A-D, 6A-B, 7A-B (mf)
References

Al-Khazali, A. M. (2024). New species and records of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Iraq. Ecologica Montenegrina 77: 12-23. doi: 10.37828/em.2024.77.2 -- Show included taxa

Coşar, İ., Kaya, R. S. & Yağmur, E. A. (2025). First record of Minosia Dalmas, 1921 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Türkiye. Commagene Journal of Biology 9(2): 133-136. doi: 10.31594/commagene.1658524 -- Show included taxa

Esyunin, S. L., Efimik, V. E., Nekhaeva, A. A., Kim, L. V., Valuev, V. A., Kabdrakhimov, A. A., Tuneva, T. K. & Akhmedenov, K. M. (2025). New data on the spider (Arachnida: Aranei) fauna of Mangystau Oblast, Kazakhstan. Arthropoda Selecta 34(3): 426-446. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.34.3.15 -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1995). Revision of the spider subfamily Gnaphosinae in Israel (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Journal of Natural History 29(4): 919-981. doi: 10.1080/00222939500770351 -- Show included taxa

Nekhaeva, A. A., Kim, L. V. & Yeszhanov, A. B. (2024). New data on the spider fauna (Arachnida: Aranei) of the East Kyzylkum Desert, Kazakhstan. Arthropoda Selecta 33(3): 391-405. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.33.3.08 -- Show included taxa

Ovtsharenko, V. I. & Fet, V. Y. (1980). Fauna and ecology of spiders (Aranei) of Badhyz (Turkmenian SSR). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 59: 442-447. -- Show included taxa

Sadeghi, H., Ahmadi, M., Zamani, A. & Jabaleh, I. (2016). A study on the spider fauna of Dargaz and Kalat Counties in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran (Arachnida: Araneae). Biharean Biologist 10(1): 4-7. -- Show included taxa

Spassky, S. A. (1939a). Araneae palaearcticae novae. III. Festschrift Embrik Strand 5: 138-144. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-10-07 New taxonomic reference entry Coşar, Kaya & Yağmur, 2025
2025-10-07 Species distribution update Coşar, Kaya & Yağmur, 2025 Old value
2025-09-24 Species synonymy Esyunin et al., 2025 Minosia simeonica synonymized with Minosia karakumensis
2025-09-24 New taxonomic reference entry Esyunin et al., 2025
2025-09-24 Species distribution update Esyunin et al., 2025 Old value

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