Dysdera crocata C.L. Koch, 1838

Zamani, Alireza & Marusik, Yuri M., 2024, New data on Dysdera Latreille, 1804 and Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 (Araneae: Dysderidae) of the Caucasus, with new species and records, Zootaxa 5397 (2), pp. 195-217 : 200-201

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5397.2.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C55178A5-DABB-4615-8443-59B388F99A36
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10468522
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scientific name	Dysdera crocata C.L. Koch, 1838
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Dysdera crocata C.L. Koch, 1838 View in CoL

Dysdera crocata View in CoL : Dunin 1992b: 62, fig. 1 (♂♀).

For the complete list of taxonomic references see WSC (2023).

Material. GEORGIA: Republic of Abkhazia: 2♂ 2♀ ( ZMMU), Sukhumi, University campus, 42°58'24.0"N 41°04'02.4"E, 07.12.2003 (Y.M. Marusik, G.N. Antipova) GoogleMaps .

Comments. This species is the most well-known member of its family, primarily due to its global distribution. It has been extensively studied and treated in 67 taxonomic publications ( WSC 2023).

Distribution. Cosmopolitan; natural range spanning from western Europe and North Africa to Central Asia. It is the only dysderid species distributed worldwide due to human-mediated introduction. In the Caucasus, it has been reported from Azerbaijan, Georgia (including Abkhazia), and North Caucasus (Adygeja, Ingushetia, Krasnodar Krai, North Ossetia-Alania, Stavropol Krai). There are over 50 records of this species in this region ( Otto 2022), all of which are confined to the North Caucasus, Caucasus Major, and the eastern coast of the Black Sea. It remains unknown in Armenia and the adjacent Iran ( Zamani et al. 2023), and has only been found in a single locality in Azerbaijan.

References

Dunin, P. M. (1992 b) The spider family Dysderidae of the Caucasian fauna (Arachnida Aranei Haplogynae). Arthropoda Selecta, 1 (3), 35 - 76. [in Russian]

Otto, S. (2022) Caucasian Spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus. Version February 2022. Available from: https: // caucasus-spiders. info / (accessed 23 May 2023)

WSC (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http: // wsc. nmbe. ch (accessed 23 May 2023) https: // doi. org / 10.24436 / 2

Zamani, A., Marusik, Y. M. & Szuts, T. (2023) A survey of the spider genus Dysdera Latreille, 1804 (Araneae, Dysderidae) in Iran, with fourteen new species and notes on two fossil genera. ZooKeys, 1146, 43 - 86. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 1146.97517