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Genus: Turinyphia van Helsdingen, 1982 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Turinyphia simplex (Tanasevitch, 1987)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012375

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Described:

Distribution: Georgia

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Type Repository Provide information

Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 1m 1f (33777) - (Tanasevitch, 1987a)
Holotype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia m - (Tanasevitch, 1987a)
Paratype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia 2m 11f - (Tanasevitch, 1987a)
Paratype: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg (ZISP), Russia 1f - (Tanasevitch, 1987a)

Taxonomic References

Plesiophantes simplex Tanasevitch, 1987a: 324, f. 41-45 (Dmf) Original description

Plesiophantes simplex Tanasevitch, 1990: 95, f. 25.22-24 (mf)

Turinyphia simplex Tanasevitch, 2025h: 726, f. 5A-E (mf, T from Plesiophantes)

References

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. (2025h). Notes on the spider genus Plesiophantes Heimer, 1981, with the first description of the female of P. tanasevitchi Wunderlich, 2011 (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Invertebrate Zoology 22(4): 718-726. doi: 10.15298/invertzool.22.4.11 -- 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	Comment
2026-01-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Tanasevitch, 2025h
2026-01-06	Species transferred to new genus	Tanasevitch, 2025h		Species transferred from Plesiophantes Heimer, 1981 to Turinyphia van Helsdingen, 1982