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Issue: Vol. 4429 No. 2: 6 Jun. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-06-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.2.11
Page range: 372–378
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A new species and new records of the spider genus Taranucnus (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from the Ukrainian Carpathians

Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians NAS of Ukraine, 4 Kozelnyts’ka St., L’viv, 79026, Ukraine.
Araneae Linyphiidae

Abstract

Taranucnus Simon, 1884 is a small Holarctic genus of the spider family Linyphiidae that contains only five species (WSC, 2018). In Europe and in Ukraine it is represented by three taxa: T. setosus (O. P.-Cambridge, 1863), T. bihari Fage, 1931 and T. carpaticus Gnelitsa, 2016 (WSC, 2018). The type species of the genus is T. setosus, widely distributed in the Palaearctic, T. bihari is known from a few localities from the Carpathians within Poland, Slovakia, and Romania (Nentwig et al. 2017). Recently, T. carpaticus was recorded from the two mountain massifs (Gorgany and Chornohora) of the Ukrainian Carpathians (Gnelitsa 2016). In this paper a fourth European species, Taranucnus beskidicus new species, is described.

 

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