Synaphris Explained

Synaphris is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Synaphridae, and was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.^[1] Originally placed with the tangle web spiders, it was moved to the Symphytognathidae in 1973,^[2] and to the Synaphridae in 2003.^[3]

Species

it contains eleven species, found in Asia, Africa, and Europe:^[4]

• Synaphris agaetensis Wunderlich, 1987 – Canary Is.
• Synaphris calerensis Wunderlich, 1987 – Canary Is.
• Synaphris dalmatensis Wunderlich, 1980 – Croatia
• Synaphris franzi Wunderlich, 1987 – Canary Is.
• Synaphris lehtineni Marusik, Gnelitsa & Kovblyuk, 2005 – Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine
• Synaphris letourneuxi (Simon, 1884) (type) – Egypt
• Synaphris orientalis Marusik & Lehtinen, 2003 – Turkmenistan, Iran?
• Synaphris saphrynis Lopardo, Hormiga & Melic, 2007 – Spain, Savage Is.?
• Synaphris schlingeri Miller, 2007 – Madagascar
• Synaphris toliara Miller, 2007 – Madagascar
• Synaphris wunderlichi Marusik & Zonstein, 2011 – Israel

See also

• List of Synaphridae species

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E. 1894. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Roret . Paris. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973. Eugène_Simon.
2. Forster. R. R.. Wilton. C. L.. 1973. The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV. Otago Museum Bulletin. 4. 29. Raymond_Robert_Forster.
3. Marusik. Y. M.. Lehtinen. P. T.. 2003. Synaphridae Wunderlich, 1986 (Aranei: Araneoidea), a new family status, with a description of a new species from Turkmenistan. Arthropoda Selecta. 11. 144. Pekka_T._Lehtinen.
4. Gen. Synaphris Simon, 1894. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-10-13. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.