Updated Checklist of Ground Spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) of Turkey, with Zoogeographical and Faunistic Remarks

The spider fauna of the Aladjagiola wetland complex (Nestos Delta, north-east Greece): a reflection of a unique zoogeographical transition zone in Europe

“…Furthermore, the distribution group of Asiatic, East Mediterranean, or Pontic elements seem to reach their westernmost geographic extension in Greece: Zelotes solstitialis was described in Israel by Levy (1998). Subsequent studies point to the occurrence of this species in Greece (Chatzaki et al ., 2003; Chatzaki, 2008), Bulgaria (Deltshev, Lazarov & Blagoev, 2004), and Turkey (Seyyar, Ayyıldız & Topçu, 2006). The recent (Chatzaki, 2010a) synonymization of Zelotes baram Levy, 2009, from Israel and Zelotes balcanicus Deltshev, 2006, from Bulgaria to the old species Zelotes argoliensis recorded from Greece made a new connection between these three areas.…”

A review of two very rare ground spiders from sandy habitats, new for Slovakia (Araneae: Gnaphosidae)

“…14). Its retreat was found built under stones, which is characteristic for ground spiders (Seyyar et al 2008, Grbić et al 2021).…”

Description of the previously unknown female of Drassodes bifidus Kovblyuk & Seyyar, 2009 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Turkey

“…cupreus (Blackwall, 1834); D. difficilis (Simon, 1878); D. lacertosus (O.P.-Cambridge, 1872); D. lapidosus (Walckenaer, 1802); D. lutescens (C.L. Koch, 1839); D. pubescens (Thorell, 1856); D. serratichelis (Roewer, 1928); D. similis Nosek, 1905;and D. villosus (Thorell, 1856) (Topçu et al, 2005;Seyyar et al, 2008). Some of these are common and well known in Europe, while others are only known from the western Mediterranean and southern Turkey (Kovblyuk et al, 2009;Bayram et al, 2014;Platnick, 2014).…”