Titanoecidae  Lehtinen, 1967 / Titanoeca  Thorell, 1870   17 species

Titanoeca turkmenia  Wunderlich, 1995

Description
Male

Pedipalp: tibial apophysis flagelliform, more than 2/3 as long as cymbium, apical part semicircularly bent. Prosoma orange-brown, chelicerae and sternum distinctly darker. Legs brown, femora distinctly darker. Opisthosoma dark grey.

Female

Female unknown.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Russia (Europe), Kazakhstan, Iran, Turkmenistan
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Albania   (Naumova, 2019) ||| Bulgaria   (Naumova, 2019) ||| Greece   (Schröder et al., 2011) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) |||
References

Naumova M (2019) Description of Titanoeca deltshevi sp. n. from Bulgaria with faunistic notes on related species in the Balkans (Araneae, Titanoecidae). Zootaxa 4688: 420-430 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Schröder M, Chatzaki M, Buchholz S (2011) The spider fauna of the Aladjagiola wetland complex (Nestos Delta, north-east Greece): a reflection of a unique zoogeographical transition zone in Europe. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 102: 217-233 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Wunderlich J (1995m) Revision der Titanoeca tristis-Gruppe, mit zwei Neubeschreibungen aus der westlichen Paläarktis (Arachnida: Araneae: Titanoecidae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 4: 731-738 pdf

Updates
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