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    Spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Martyan Cape Reserve (Crimea, Ukraine)

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    140 spider species are discovered on the territory of Martyan Cape Reserve. Some species are pointed out for the first time: 5 species – Pocadicnemis juncea Locket, Millidge, 1953, Pardosa proxima (C.L. Koch, 1847), Philodromus collinus C.L. Koch, 1835, Metellina mengei (Blackwall, 1870), Tmarus stellio Simon, 1875 for Crimean territory; 5 species – Araeoncus caucasicus Tanasevitch, 1987, Canariphantes nanus (Kulczyński, 1898), Mesiotelus tenuissimus (L. Koch, 1866), Thantatus atratus Simon, 1875, Th. imbecillus L. Koch, 1878 for the territory of Ukraine and 5 species – Malthonica dalmatica (Kulczynski, 1906), Zygiella keyserlingi (Ausserer, 1871), Lathys simplex (Simon, 1884), Episinus maculipes Cavanna, 1876, Euryopis sexalbomaculata (Lucas, 1846) for the territory of the former Soviet Union. The specimens of Oonopidae family are registered in Crimea for the first time as well. The Crimea is the most distant point of finding for 28 spider species from Martyan Cape Reserve: for 10 species it is last point on the East (Malthonica dalmatica, Amaurobius erberi, Zygiella keyserlingi, Lathys simplex, Dysdera longirostris, Gnaphosa moesta, Canariphantes nanus, Hypsocephalus dahli, Walckenaeria stylifrons, Episinus maculipes); for 6 species on the North-East (Maimuna vestita, Aphantaulax cincta, Zelotes tenuis, Heliophanus simplex, Euryopis sexalbomaculata, Zoropsis lutea); for 5 species on the West (Dysdera dunini, Drassyllus crimeaensis, Araeoncus caucasicus, Minicia caspiana, Palliduphantes khobarum); for other 5 species on the North (Drassodes serratichelis, Saitis tauricus, Cozyptila thaleri, Heriaeus orientalis, Zodarion morosum), and for 2 species on the South (Tegenaria lapicidinarum, Harpactea azowensis). Four spider species from «Martyan Cape» Reserve are to be considered as Crimean endemics: Malthonica podoprygorai, Harpactea doblikae, Synaphris lehtineni and Neon kovblyuki. The diagnostic drawings on 8 species of spiders captured in Crimea: Zygiella keyserlingi, Mesiotelus tenuissimus, Pardosa tatarica (Thorell, 1875), Mimetus laevigatus (Keyserling, 1863), Thantatus atratus, Th. imbecillus, Episinus maculipes, Euryopis sexalbomaculata are presented. The diagnostic drawings of Euryopis clarus Ponomarev, 2005 have been made on paratipe exemplars from Kazakhstan. The species Mesiotelus tenuissimus is redescribed base on Crimean exemplars. Earlier mentioned Pocadicnemis pumila (Blackwall, 1841) [Ковблюк, 2004a] is P. juncea
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