Gnaphosa ukrainica Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Song, 1992

Polchaninova, N., Gnelitsa, V., Terekhova, V. & Iosypchuk, A., 2021, New And Rare Spider Species (Arachnida, Araneae) From Ukraine, Zoodiversity 55 (2), pp. 95-112 : 98-99

Gnaphosa ukrainica Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Song, 1992

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. Kherson Reg., 500m SSE Respublikanets ,medium-height riverbank dominated by forbs, 15.06‒ 3.07.2020, 1 ♀ (Iosypchuk); 3.9 km W Skadovsk, salt marshes, 24.07.– 01.08.2019, 1 ♀ (Iosypchuk) ;

Zaporizhzhia Reg., 2 km E Davydivka , saline marshes, 07‒ 24.06.2019, 32 Ơ, 11 ♀ ; 4.8 km NE Sheliuhy , saline marshes, 07‒ 24.06.2019, 31 Ơ, 4 ♀ .

D i s t r i b u t i o n. From Southern Ukraine to West Siberia (Novosibirsk Reg., Russia) ( Azarkina et al., 2018), southward to Turkmenistan ( Mikhailov, 2013) and Iran (Kerman Province) ( Zamani & Marusik, 2018). Ukraine: Kherson Reg.: Heroiske, Novochornomorya ( Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2013), Respublikanets ( Iosypchuk, 2019), Skadowsk ( Iosypchuk et al., 2020); AR Crimea: Saky Distr. ( Kovblyuk & Kastrygina, 2015); Zaporizhzhia Reg. (first record).

Note. Heroiske Vill. (Kherson Reg.) is the westernmost known locality. Being abundant on saline marshes, the species has a highly patched distribution: viz., in the Pryazovslyi NNP, it was found in two localities out of five, although all of them host vast saline marshes.