World Spider Catalog

Genus: Cheiracanthium C. L. Koch, 1839 | Family: Cheiracanthiidae Wagner, 1887

Cheiracanthium minusculum Zamani & Marusik, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064230

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Described:

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Distribution: Algeria, Libya, Iran

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Holotype: University of Turku Zoological Museum (MZT/ZMUT), Turku, Finland m - (Zamani et al., 2025b)

Taxonomic References

Cheiracanthium minusculum Zamani & Marusik, in Zamani et al., 2025b: 6, f. 5C, 6A-B (Dm) Original description

Cheiracanthium minusculum Zamani et al., 2026b: 5, f. 3A-F (m, Df)

References

Zamani, A., Belhadi, A., Dekkoumi, B., Iflefel, S. A., Sidatt, Z. E. A., Elmareme, H. M., Shaibi, T., Meddour, S. & Alioua, Y. (2026b). New species and records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Maghreb. Zootaxa 5873(1): 1-31. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5873.1.1 ZooBank: EA1FD2F6-013E-4D0B-8FC3-F20C92F610C8 -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A., Enayatnia, M., Mirshekar, A., Mayvan, M. M., Kováč, L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2025b). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part XII. Zootaxa 5601(1): 1-45. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5601.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2026-08-20	First description of female	Zamani et al., 2026b
2026-08-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani et al., 2026b
2026-08-20	Species distribution update	Zamani et al., 2026b	Old value
2025-03-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani et al., 2025b
2025-03-06	New species inserted	Zamani et al., 2025b