Gnathonarium taczanowskii ( O. Pickard­Cambridge 1873 ), O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873

Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2006, On some Linyphiidae of China, mainly from Taibai Shan, Qinling Mountains, Shaanxi Province (Arachnida: Araneae), Zootaxa 1325, pp. 277-311 : 303

Gnathonarium taczanowskii ( O. Pickard­Cambridge 1873)

Gnathonarium cambridgei Schenkel 1963: 114 syn. n.

Material: 2 ♂, 10 Ψ ( SMF), China, Quinghai Prov., Koko Nor Lake, southern shore, near Heimane, 3200–3250 m, 9.–21.VI.1996, leg. J. Martens; 1 Ψ ( SMF), Shaanxi Prov., S flanks of Taibai Shan, above Houshenzi, primary broadleaved forest, 1700–2600 m, 9.VI.1997, leg. J. Martens & P. Jäger; 1 Ψ ( SMF), same, above Houshenzi, secondary broadleaved forest, 1300–1700 m, 19.VI.1997, leg. J. Martens & P. Jäger.

Taxonomic remarks. The recently published revision of the genus Gnathonarium Karsch 1881 by Tu & Li (2004), provided with splendid and highly detailed illustrations, clearly shows that G. cambridgei Schenkel 1963 , known from China, represents a junior synonym of Gnathonarium taczanowskii ( O. Pickard­Cambridge 1873) syn. n. The latter species was originally described from the Lake Baikal region ( Pickard­Cambridge 1873), and currently known to be widespread in Asia from the Urals in the West to Cisokhotia, Kamchatka, Sakhalin etc. in the East; also recorded in Mongolia and throughout South Siberia. In the Nearctic, recorded only from Alaska ( Tanasevitch 2006).