Dysdera Latreille, 1804

Lin, Yejie, Chang, Wan-Jin & Li, Shuqiang, 2020, Dysdera dushengi sp. nov., the easternmost species of the spider family Dysderidae (Arachnida: Araneae), Zoological Systematics 45 (2), pp. 97-103 : 98-99

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11865/zs.202014
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5105801
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scientific name	Dysdera Latreille, 1804
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Type species. Aranea erythrina Walckenaer, 1802 from France. Diagnosis. See Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman (1988).

Distribution. An anthropochorous species, D. crocata , which is native of Europe, Caucasus, Iraq and Central Asia, has been introduced to North America, Chile, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii ( WSC, 2020). Aside from this species, Dysderidae is the only family of spiders that is nearly endemic to the Palaearctic and particularly to the Western Palaearctic (Marusik, 2017). Before this study, the easternmost distribution record of Dysderidae is D. tartarica Kroneberg, 1875 , reported from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (42.8241°N, 74.7380°E, see Dunin, 1985). The new species reported in this study, D. dushengi sp. nov., has a distribution that reaches 81.0180°E longitude, making it the easternmost member of the family.