World Spider Catalog

Genus: Synaphosus Platnick & Shadab, 1980 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Synaphosus turanicus Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027996

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Described:

Distribution: Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Central Asia

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg (ZISP), Russia m - (Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994)
Allotype: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg (ZISP), Russia f - (Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994)

Taxonomic References

Synaphosus turanicus Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994: 18, f. 6, 58-66 (Dmf) Original description

Synaphosus turanicus Marusik & Fomichev, 2016b: 438, f. 31-33, 43-50 (mf)

Synaphosus turanicus Seropian et al., 2024b: 190, f. 11-12 (f)

References

Marusik, Y. M. & Fomichev, A. A. (2016b). A survey of East Palaearctic Gnaphosidae (Araneae). 5. On Synaphosus from Central Asia. Zootaxa 4178(3): 428-442. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.3.7 -- Show included taxa

Ovtsharenko, V. I., Levy, G. & Platnick, N. I. (1994). A review of the ground spider genus Synaphosus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). American Museum Novitates 3095: 1-27. -- Show included taxa

Seropian, A., Bulbulashvili, N., Makharadze, G. & Baznikin, A. (2024b). New and interesting spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from Vashlovani National Park and Chachuna Managed Reserve (Georgia). Caucasiana 3: 183-213. doi: 10.3897/caucasiana.3.e132501 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2024-10-03	Species distribution update		Old value
2024-10-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Seropian et al., 2024b
2024-10-02	Species distribution update	Seropian et al., 2024b	Old value
2016-10-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Marusik & Fomichev, 2016b