Shaitan elchini Kovblyuk, Kastrygina & Marusik, 2013
Description
Male
Prosoma yellow, ovoid, eye region slightly darkened, prosoma length: 2 mm. Chelicerae light brown, with conspicuous frontal setae, promargin with 1 denticle, retromargin with 2 denticles. Sternum white-yellow, ovoid. Legs yellow, except tarsi I-II slightly darker. Opisthosoma without scutum.
Body length male: 4.2 mmFemale
Colouration and chelicerae as in males. Prosoma length: 1.9 mm.
Body length female: 5.4 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2013b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2013b)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2013b)
Bulbus, dorso-apical view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2013b)
Bulbus, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2013b)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2013b)
Epigyne/vulva, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2013b)
Prosoma, ventral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2013b)
Eyes, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2013b)
Chelicera, mesal view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2013b)
Spinnerets, ventral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2013b)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2013b)
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.
References
Kovblyuk M M, Kastrygina Z A, Marusik Y M (2013b) A new genus Shaitan elchini gen. et sp.n. (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) from Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Arthropoda Selecta 22: 145-151 
Kuzmin E A, Esyunin S L (2016a) The first record of Shaitan (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) for Russia. Bulletin of Perm University, Biology 1: 22-28
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.
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