Bathyphantes eumenis (L. Koch, 1879)

Esyunin, S. L. & Kazantsev, D. K, 2007, On the spider (Aranei) fauna of the Pechoro - Ilychskiy Reserve (North Urals), with the description of a new Agroeca species (Liocranidae), Arthropoda Selecta 16 (4), pp. 245-250 : 246

Bathyphantes eumenis (L. Koch, 1879)

B. eumenis: Pakhorukov & Utochkin, 1977b , p. 907, fig. 1 (♀).

Bathyphantes eumenis: Wozny & Szajka, 1985 , p. 575, figs 1— 5 (♂ ♀)

MATERIAL. 5 ♀♀ ( PSU- 4639) , I, creek of Malaya Garevka River, bottomland Picea forest with high-herbage, 30.VI— 02.VII.2007, DK .

REMARKS. This species has been recorded from the Pechoro-Ilychskiy Reserve and also figured by Pakhorukov [Pakhorukov & Utochkin, 1977b; Pakhorukov, 1980]. In 1985, Wożny & Czajka [1985] showed that Bathyphantes simillimus (L. Koch, 1879) should be a synonym of B. eumenis . Contrary, Eskov [1994] did not support the opinion on the identity of these species and considered Pakhorukov̕s records as B. simillimus . We and our colleagues [Tanasevitch and Marusik, personal comm.] are in favour of Wozny & Szajka̕s viewpoint, and have therefore identified our specimens as the Holarctic boreal species, B. eumenis .