Synaphosus Platnick & Shadab, 1980

Seropian, Armen, Bulbulashvili, Natalia, Makharadze, Giorgi & Baznikin, Andrei, 2024, New and interesting spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from Vashlovani National Park and Chachuna Managed Reserve (Georgia), Caucasiana 3, pp. 183-213 : 183-213

* Genus Synaphosus Platnick & Shadab, 1980

Comments.

Synaphosus is a relatively large genus of small spiders, with 36 accepted species mainly distributed in the Palaearctic ( WSC 2024). Males of this genus differ from those of the closely related Cryptodrassus Miller, 1943 , by the presence of a translucent flange on the male palp and larger embolus, while females have strongly coiled insemination ducts. Until recently, a single species, S. palearcticus Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994 , was recorded in the Caucasus ( Armenia, Azerbaijan) ( Otto 2022).