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

Amaurobius candia Thaler & Knoflach, 2002

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037802

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Described:

Distribution: Greece (Crete)

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Paratype: Natural History Museum, Bern (NMBE) [= Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern], Switzerland 2m 4f (AR43659, ex coll. Thaler) - (Thaler & Knoflach, 2002a)
Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHMW), Wien/Vienna, Austria m - (Thaler & Knoflach, 2002a)
Paratype: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHMW), Wien/Vienna, Austria 2f - (Thaler & Knoflach, 2002a)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1m 2f (ARTO-0028232) - (Thaler & Knoflach, 2002a)
Paratype: Natural History Museum of the University of Crete (NHMC), Heraklion, Greece 2f - (Thaler & Knoflach, 2002a)
Paratype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden 2f - (Thaler & Knoflach, 2002a)
Paratype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland 2f (ARAN-02739a) - (Thaler & Knoflach, 2002a)

Taxonomic References

Amaurobius candia Thaler & Knoflach, 2002a: 340, f. 5-6, 10, 14-16, 18, 21-22, 25-26 (Dmf) Original description

References

Thaler, K. & Knoflach, B. (2002a). A superspecies in the genus Amaurobius on Crete, and additional records from Greece (Araneae: Amaurobiidae). In: Toft, S. & N. Scharff (eds.) European Arachnology 2000: Proceedings of the 19th European Colloquium of Arachnology. Aarhus University Press, pp. 337-344. -- 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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