Synaphris

Synaphris is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Synaphridae, and was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.[2] Originally placed with the tangle web spiders, it was moved to the Symphytognathidae in 1973,[3] and to the Synaphridae in 2003.[4]

Synaphris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Synaphridae
Genus:	Synaphris Simon, 1894[1]
Type species
S. letourneuxi (Simon, 1884)
Species
11, see text

Species

As of September 2019 it contains eleven species, found in Asia, Africa, and Europe:[1]

• Synaphris agaetensis Wunderlich, 1987 – Canary Is.
• Synaphris calerensis Wunderlich, 1987 – Canary Is.
• Synaphris dalmatensis Wunderlich, 1980 – Croatia
• Synaphris franzi Wunderlich, 1987 – Canary Is.
• Synaphris lehtineni Marusik, Gnelitsa & Kovblyuk, 2005 – Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine
• Synaphris letourneuxi (Simon, 1884) (type) – Egypt
• Synaphris orientalis Marusik & Lehtinen, 2003 – Turkmenistan, Iran?
• Synaphris saphrynis Lopardo, Hormiga & Melic, 2007 – Spain, Savage Is.?
• Synaphris schlingeri Miller, 2007 – Madagascar
• Synaphris toliara Miller, 2007 – Madagascar
• Synaphris wunderlichi Marusik & Zonstein, 2011 – Israel

See also

• List of Synaphridae species

References

1. "Gen. Synaphris Simon, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
2. Simon, E (1894). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
3. Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV". Otago Museum Bulletin. 4: 29.
4. Marusik, Y. M.; Lehtinen, P. T. (2003). "Synaphridae Wunderlich, 1986 (Aranei: Araneoidea), a new family status, with a description of a new species from Turkmenistan". Arthropoda Selecta. 11: 144.