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Issue: Vol. 4286 No. 3: 3 Jul. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-07-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.3.10
Page range: 431–431
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Gnaphosa serzonshteini, a replacement name for Gnaphosa zonsteini Fomichev & Marusik, 2017 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae)

Altai State University, Lenina Pr., 61, Barnaul, RF-656049, Russia.
Institute for Biological Problems of the North RAS, Portovaya Str. 18, Magadan 685000, Russia. Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa Zoological Museum, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
Araneae Gnaphosidae

Abstract

Gnaphosa zonsteini Fomichev & Marusik, 2017, belonging to the rasnitsyni-group, was recently described from western Mongolia based on both sexes (Fomichev & Marusik 2017). This species was named in honour of our colleague and friend Sergei L. Zonstein (Tel Aviv, Israel) on occasion of his 60th birthday. While describing it, we overlooked that this species name already existed: Gnaphosa zonsteini Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Song, 1992. That species belongs to the muscorum-group, its description was based on several females collected in Kyrgyzstan (Ovtsharenko et al. 1992), which is the only country from where it is recorded so far (Mikhailov 2013). It was also named after Sergei Zonstein, who collected the holotype. Both species are known from a single taxonomic entry (World Spider Catalog 2017).

 

References

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    Ovtsharenko, V.I., Platnick, N.I. & Song, D.X. (1992) A review of the North Asian ground spiders of the genus Gnaphosa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 212, 1‒88.

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