Gnaphosa lucifuga

Family: Gnaphosidae Pocock, 1898 | key
Genus: Gnaphosa Latreille, 1804 | key

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Gnaphosa lucifuga (Walckenaer, 1802) [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidersp:027245]

Description

Male palp lighter than body colour. Embolus robust, runs along ± the whole inner side of cymbium. Epigyne with very broad scapus, touching bar-like protrusions of lateral epigynal margins. Prosoma dark red-brown to black-brown, eye region darker. Chelicerae darker than prosoma. Legs lighter than prosoma. Opisthosoma dark red-brown to black-brown.

Body length male: 10.5-14.9 mm, Body length female: 12.1-18.7 mm

Additional information

in sunny dry meadows, rock steppes and heathland, under stones during the day

Distribution

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Global distribution (Platnick 2013): Palearctic

Phenology



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Figures

Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH), ventral view (Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)	Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH), ventral view (Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)	Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH) (Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)	Pedipalp (Roberts 1998)	Epigyne (courtesy of the AMNH) (Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)
Epigyne (Roberts 1998)	Vulva (courtesy of the AMNH) (Ovtsharenko et al. 1992)	Vulva, dorsal view (Tullgren 1946)	Vulva, ventral view (Tullgren 1946)

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References

Bayram A, Kunt K B, Danýþman T (2012) The Checklist of the Spiders of Turkey. Version 2012.1 Online at http://www.spidersofturkey.com

Otto S, Tramp S (2011) Caucasian Spiders – A faunistic Database on the Spiders of the Caucasus (Version 2.0 Beta).
Internet: db.caucasus-spiders.info/Area/152 (July 2011)

Ovtsharenko V I, Platnick N I, Song D X (1992) A Review of the North Asian ground spiders of the Genus Gnaphosa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bull Am Mus Nat Hist 212: 1-88.

Platnick N I (2013) The world spider catalog, version 13.5. American Museum of Natural History, online at http://research.amnh.org/iz/spiders/catalog. DOI: 10.5531/db.iz.0001

Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion Natuur Baarn, Netherlands

Tullgren A (1946) Svensk spindelfauna. 3. Egentiliga spinddlar. Araneae Fam 5-7. Clubionidae, Zoridae och Gnaphosidae. pl. I - XXI Stockholm (Entomol Fören) : 1-141.

van Helsdingen P J (2010) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org