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Genus: Eresus Walckenaer, 1805 | Family: Eresidae C. L. Koch, 1845

Eresus transcaucasicus Zamani, Seropian, Zarikian, Bulbulashvili & Szűts, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065779

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Described:

Distribution: Georgia, Armenia

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: University of Turku Zoological Museum (MZT/ZMUT), Turku, Finland m (1017) - (Zamani et al., 2025e)
Paratype: University of Turku Zoological Museum (MZT/ZMUT), Turku, Finland 5m (1018) - (Zamani et al., 2025e)
Paratype: Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University (IZISU), Tbilisi, Georgia 4m - (Zamani et al., 2025e)

Taxonomic References

Eresus kollari Zarikian, 2022a: 759, f. 1 (m; misidentified per Zamani et al., 2025e: 4)

Eresus sp. (sandaliatus-species group) Seropian et al., 2023: 237, f. S1 (m, fig. as Eresus cf. kollari; here per Zamani et al., 2025e: 4)

Eresus transcaucasicus Zamani et al., 2025e: 4, f. 1A-F, 2A-D, 3A-F, 4A-L (Dm) Original description

References

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

Zamani, A., Seropian, A., Zarikian, N. A., Bulbulashvili, N. & Szűts, T. (2025e). Different, but still the same: integrative taxonomy confirms a new species of Eresus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae, Eresidae) from the South Caucasus. ZooKeys 1249: 1-13. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1249.159081 -- Show included taxa

Zarikian, N. A. (2022a). New records of Araneae from Armenia. Indian Journal of Entomology 84(4): 757-760. doi: 10.55446/IJE.2022.688 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-08-12	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2025-08-12	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2025-08-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani et al., 2025e
2025-08-12	New species inserted	Zamani et al., 2025e