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Genus: Pax Levy, 1990 | Family: Zodariidae Thorell, 1881

Pax islamita (Simon, 1873)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025888

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Described:

Distribution: Turkey, Israel, Syria, Lebanon

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Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France (could not be located) -

Taxonomic References

Habronestes islamita Simon, 1873a: 75 (Dmf) Original description

Storena islamita Simon, 1893a: 247

Pax islamita Levy, 1990b: 358, f. 68-71 (Tf from Storena, Dm)

Pax islamita Seyyar et al., 2008: 52, f. 1-11 (mf)

Pax islamita Shafaie, Pekár & Seyyar, 2025: 17, f. 11A-D, 12A-I - SoE: 12A-I (mf)

References

Levy, G. (1990b). Spiders of the genus Lachesana and a new storenoid genus from Israel (Araneae: Zodariidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 98(4): 327-362. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1990.tb01205.x -- Show included taxa

Seyyar, O., El-Hennawy, H. K., Demir, H. & Türkeş, T. (2008). The first record of genus Pax (Araneae: Zodariidae) in Turkey. Serket 11: 51-54. -- Show included taxa

Shafaie, S., Pekár, S. & Seyyar, O. (2025). New data on zodariid spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. European Journal of Taxonomy 1016: 1-139. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2025.1016.3063 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1873a). Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. (2e mémoire). Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2) 5(8): 1-174, pl. 1-3. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

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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
2025-09-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Shafaie, Pekár & Seyyar, 2025