Synaphris saphrynis Lopardo, Hormiga & Melic, 2007

Barrientos, Jose A., Prieto, Carlos E., Pina, Silvia, Henriques, Sergio S, Sousa, Pedro, Schindler, Stefan, Reino, Luis, Beja, Pedro & Santana, Joana, 2023, Arachnid Fauna (Araneae and Opiliones) from the Castro Verde Special Protection Area, southern Portugal, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 110415-110415 : 110415

Synaphris saphrynis Lopardo, Hormiga & Melic, 2007

Distribution

Available data abound in considering this species as an Iberian endemism, although a citation from the Selvagens Islands ( Crespo et al. 2009) would considerably extend its range. Recently, Barrientos et al. (2020) cite it in the District of Beja. Our data show that, in certain habitats, S. saphrynis can be relatively abundant and also that, due to its small size and possible crypticism, it can go unnoticed in surveys.

Notes

42♂♂, 32♀♀, 20 jj.

There is considerable morphological affinity between the described species of the genus Synaphris Simon, 1894 whose distribution is centralised in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian Zone; the two species described from Madagascar would deserve special attention in a desirable revision of the family Synaphridae .