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Genus: Bisetifer Tanasevitch, 1987 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Bisetifer cephalotus Tanasevitch, 1987

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009613

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Described:

Distribution: Russia (Caucasus)

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia m (Ta-4471) - (Tanasevitch, 1987a)
Paratype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia 1m (Ta-4472; other paratypes belong to Bisetifer gruzin) - (Tanasevitch, 1987a)

Taxonomic References

Bisetifer cephalotus Tanasevitch, 1987a: 342, f. 81-86 (Dm; f f. 87 see Bisetifer gruzin) Original description

Bisetifer cephalotus Tanasevitch, 1990: 103, f. 22.8-9, 28.1-2 (m; f f. 24.42 see Bisetifer gruzin)

Bisetifer cephalotus Tanasevitch, Ponomarev & Chumachenko, 2015: 447, f. 1-3, 7-18 (m, Df)

Bisetifer cephalotus Nadolny & Turbanov, 2025: 47, f. 6A-B (f)

References

Nadolny, A. A. & Turbanov, I. S. (2025). A review of cave spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Crimean Mountains, with descriptions of two new species. ZooKeys 1230: 37-80. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1230.137029 -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. (1987a). The linyphiid spiders of the Caucasus, USSR (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 67: 297-383. -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. (1990). The spider family Linyphiidae in the fauna of the Caucasus (Arachnida, Aranei). In: B. R. Striganova (ed.) Fauna nazemnykh bespozvonochnykh Kavkaza. Akademia Nauk, Moscow, pp. 5-114. -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V., Ponomarev, A. V. & Chumachenko, Y. A. (2015). Notes on the spider genus Bisetifer Tanasevitch, 1987 (Aranei: Linyphiidae), with the description of a new species. Arthropoda Selecta 24(4): 445-450. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.24.4.08 -- 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
2025-03-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Nadolny & Turbanov, 2025
2025-03-07	Species distribution update	Nadolny & Turbanov, 2025	Old value
2016-01-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Tanasevitch, Ponomarev & Chumachenko, 2015
2016-01-07	Species distribution update	Tanasevitch, Ponomarev & Chumachenko, 2015	Old value
2015-02-16	Species distribution update	Kovblyuk, 2014	Old value