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Genus: Mesiotelus Simon, 1897 | Family: Liocranidae Simon, 1897

Mesiotelus scopensis Drensky, 1935

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Described:

Distribution: Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Caucasus, Iraq, Iran

External Resources*: araneae - Spiders of Europe | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia m of Mesiotelus caucasicus - (Zamani & Marusik, 2021e)
Paratype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia 3m 14f of Mesiotelus caucasicus - (Zamani & Marusik, 2021e)
Paratype: Manchester Museum of the University of Manchester (MMUE/MMUM), Manchester, United Kingdom 3f (G7674.2) of Mesiotelus caucasicus - (Zamani & Marusik, 2021e)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1f of Mesiotelus caucasicus - (Zamani & Marusik, 2021e)
Holotype: Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Researches (IBER), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria m (ALO.0001) of Mesiotelus deltshevi - (Naumova, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Mesiotelus cyprius scopensis Drensky, 1935: 106, f. 5 (Df) Original description

Mesiotelus deltshevi Naumova, 2020: 4, f. 2-3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051750]

Mesiotelus caucasicus Zamani & Marusik, 2021e: 560, f. 3A-I, 4A-G, 5A-E (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053651]

Mesiotelus deltshevi Zamani & Marusik, 2021e: 560, f. 5H-I (f)

Mesiotelus cf. scopensis Zarikian, Propistsova & Marusik, 2022: 109, f. 5A-E (f; confirmed by Zamani & Marusik, 2021e: 560, sub M. caucasicus)

Mesiotelus caucasicus Coşar, Danışman & Erdek, 2023: 9, f. 1-5 (f)

Mesiotelus deltshevi Coşar, Danışman & Erdek, 2023: 10, f. 6-11 (f)

Mesiotelus caucasicus Seropian et al., 2023: 259, f. 66 (f)

Mesiotelus caucasicus Vlasov & Efimik, 2024: 47, f. 3F, O (mf)

Mesiotelus scopensis Zamani et al., 2024b: 203, f. 20-24 (m, S of Mesiotelus caucasicus and M. deltshevi)

Mesiotelus scopensis Ponomarev & Shmatko, 2024b: 235, f. 6 (f)

References

Coşar, İ., Danışman, T. & Erdek, M. (2023). The genus Mesiotelus Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Liocranidae) in Turkey. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 19(1): 9-13. doi: 10.23885/181433262023191-913 -- Show included taxa

Drensky, P. (1935). Über die von Dr. Stanko Karaman in Jugoslavien und besonders in Mazedonien gesammelten Spinnen (Araneae) [Paiatzi (Araneae) seubirani ot Dr Stanko Karaman w Jougoslavia i osobeno w Makedonia]. Izvestiya na Tsarskite Prirodonauchni Instituti v Sofia 8: 97-110. -- Show included taxa

Naumova, M. (2020). Descriptions of two new spider species, with new data on the Albanian arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Pseudoscorpiones and Scorpiones). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 72(1): 3-12. -- Show included taxa

Ponomarev, A. V. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2024b). Further notes on the spider fauna (Aranei) of southern Russia. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 20(2): 233-237. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14414396 -- Show included taxa

Seropian, A., Bulbulashvili, N., Otto, S., Krammer, H.-J., Kachlishvili, N. & Datunashvili, A. (2023). Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297 & Suppl. doi: 10.3897/caucasiana.2.e110536 -- Show included taxa

Vlasov, S. V. & Efimik, V. E. (2024). A new species of Mesiotelus Simon 1897 (Aranei, Liocranidae) from the Republic of Uzbekistan. Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 103(8): 45-50. doi: 10.31857/S0044513424080037 -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2021e). Two new species of Liocranidae (Arachnida: Aranei) from the Caucasus and northern Iran. Arthropoda Selecta 30(4): 557-564. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.30.4.12 -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A., Fomichev, A. A., Naumova, M., Kaya, R. S. & Marusik, Y. M. (2024b). New taxonomic and faunistic data on Liocranidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of West Palaearctic), with nine new species of Mesiotelus Simon, 1897. Zootaxa 5519(2): 190-214. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5519.2.2 -- Show included taxa

Zarikian, N. A., Propistsova, E. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2022). On spider families (Arachnida: Araneae) new to Armenia. Israel Journal of Entomology 51(2021): 103-117. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6466083 [[publ. in April 2022]] -- 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

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-12-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Ponomarev & Shmatko, 2024b
2024-12-18	Species distribution update	Ponomarev & Shmatko, 2024b	Old value
2024-11-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Vlasov & Efimik, 2024
2024-10-08	Species synonymy	Zamani et al., 2024b		Mesiotelus deltshevi synonymized with Mesiotelus scopensis
2024-10-08	Species synonymy	Zamani et al., 2024b		Mesiotelus caucasicus synonymized with Mesiotelus scopensis
2024-10-08	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani et al., 2024b
2024-10-08	Species distribution update	Zamani et al., 2024b	Old value
2024-10-08	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2023-08-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Bosmans, 2023
2023-07-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Demircan Aksan, 2023
2023-04-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Tutar & Yağmur, 2023
2023-03-05	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon	Zamani & Marusik, 2021e		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus caucasicus Zamani & Marusik, 2021
2023-01-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Coşar, Danışman & Erdek, 2023
2022-05-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Zarikian, Propistsova & Marusik, 2022
2022-05-26	Species distribution update	Zarikian, Propistsova & Marusik, 2022	Old value
2021-12-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani & Marusik, 2021e
2020-03-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Naumova, 2020
2015-12-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Elverici, Özkütük & Kunt, 2013
2015-12-23	Species distribution update	Elverici, Özkütük & Kunt, 2013	Old value
2014-10-13	Species distribution update		Old value