A survey of Synaphosus Platnick & Shadab, 1980 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Azerbaijan, including the description of a new species

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  A survey of Synaphosus Platnick & Shadab, 1980 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Azerbaijan, including the description of a new species Abstract A survey of ground spiders of the genus Synaphosus Platnick & Shadab, 1980 (Gnaphosidae) from Azerbaijan, including five species, is presented. Among them, S . nakhchivanicus sp. nov. is described based on a male specimen collected in the Julfa District. In addition, S . syntheticus (Chamberlin, 1924) is reported from the Caucasus for the first time. Nuruyeva, T. V., Fomichev, A. A., Snegovaya, N. Y., Alekperov, I. K., Huseynzade, G. A., & Musayeva, Z. Y. (2026). A survey of <em>Synaphosus</em> Platnick & Shadab, 1980 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Azerbaijan, including the description of a new species. Ecologica Montenegrina , 99 , 82–88. https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2026.99.6

A new species of Amaurobius (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) from the central Anatolian region of Turkey, with the redescription of Amaurobius ausobskyi Thaler & Knoflach

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A new species of Amaurobius (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) from the central Anatolian region of Turkey, with the redescription of Amaurobius ausobskyi Thaler & Knoflach

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A new Amaurobius species, A. turkiyensis sp. n. (male) is described from the Konya Province of Turkey. In addition to this new species, a new population of Amaurobius ausobskyi Thaler & Knoflach, 1998, previously described from Greece, was discovered in Aydın and Denizli provinces and its unknown male was described for the first time. Furthermore, A. ausobskyi Thaler & Knoflach, A. deelemanae Thaler & Knoflach, and A. obustus L. Koch, were reported as new species for the spider fauna of Turkey.

Danışman, T., Coşar, İ., Kunt, K. B., & Yağmur, E. A. (2026). 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2025.2599914