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Genus: Raveniola Zonstein, 1987 | Family: Nemesiidae Simon, 1889

Raveniola kopetdaghensis (Fet, 1984)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001266

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Described:

Distribution: Turkmenistan

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg (ZISP), Russia m - (Zonstein & Esyunin, 2023)
Paratype: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg (ZISP), Russia 14m 2jf - (Zonstein, 2024)
Paratype: Steinhardt Museum of Natural History (SMNH), Tel Aviv, Israel 9m - (Zonstein, 2024)
Paratype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia 4m 6j - (Zonstein, 2024)

Taxonomic References

Brachythele kopetdaghensis Fet, 1984: 37, f. 1-2 (Dm) Original description

Raveniola kopetdaghensis Zonstein, 1987: 1015 (T from Brachythele)

Raveniola kopetdaghensis Zonstein, 2024: 66, f. 21-22, 103, 158, 222, 281, 305, 372, 443-444, 604 (m)

References

Fet, V. Y. (1984). [A new species of spider from the Turkmen SSR: Brachythele kopetdaghensis sp. n. (Aranei, Dipluridae)]. In: Fauna and Ecology of Arachnids. University of Perm, pp. 37-41. -- Show included taxa

Zonstein, S. L. (1987). A new genus of mygalomorph spiders of the subfamily Nemesiinae (Aranei, Nemesiidae) in the Palearctic fauna. Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 66: 1013-1019. -- Show included taxa

Zonstein, S. L. (2024). A revision of the spider genus Raveniola (Araneae, Nemesiidae). II. Species from Central Asia. European Journal of Taxonomy 967: 1-185. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.967.2699 -- Show included taxa

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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
2024-10-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Zonstein, 2024
2024-10-25	Species updated	Zonstein, 2024	Old value	Error corrected