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Genus: Amaurobius C. L. Koch, 1837 | Family: Amaurobiidae Thorell, 1869

Amaurobius ausobskyi Thaler & Knoflach, 1998

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022590

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Described:

Distribution: Greece, Turkey

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Type Repository Provide information

Paratype: Natural History Museum, Bern (NMBE) [= Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern], Switzerland 1f (AR43233; ex coll. Thaler) - (Thaler & Knoflach, 1998d)
Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHMW), Wien/Vienna, Austria f - (Thaler & Knoflach, 1998d)
Paratype: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHMW), Wien/Vienna, Austria 1f - (Thaler & Knoflach, 1998d)

Taxonomic References

Amaurobius ausobskyi Thaler & Knoflach, 1998d: 108, f. 7-9 (Df) Original description

Amaurobius ausobskyi Danışman et al., 2026a: 366, f. 11-25 (Dm, f)

References

Danışman, T., Coşar, İ., Kunt, K. B. & Yağmur, E. A. (2026a). A new species of Amaurobius (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) from the central Anatolian region of Turkey, with the redescription of Amaurobius ausobskyi Thaler & Knoflach. Journal of Natural History 60(5-8): 365-379. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2025.2599914 -- Show included taxa

Thaler, K. & Knoflach, B. (1998d). Two new species and new records of the genus Amaurobius (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) from Greece. In: Selden, P. A. (ed.) Proceedings of the 17th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Edinburgh 1997. Edinburgh, pp. 107-114. -- 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

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
2026-01-24	First description of male	Danışman et al., 2026a
2026-01-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Danışman et al., 2026a
2026-01-24	Species distribution update	Danışman et al., 2026a	Old value