Gnaphosa lapponum is a ground spider species found across heaths and heath-like terrain in alpine-subalpine zones of Europe (including Iceland) and Russia (European Russia to West Siberia).[1]

Gnaphosa lapponum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Gnaphosa
Species:
G. lapponum
Binomial name
Gnaphosa lapponum
(L. Koch, 1866)

Appearance

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Specimens have a brown prosoma and opisthosoma, with females larger than males, with respective body lengths of 8-10 mm for female specimens, and 7.5-8.3 mm for males.[1]

Former subspecies

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Gnaphosa lapponum inermis was formerly considered a subspecies of Gnaphosa lapponum, but was fully synonymized with the nominate form of the species in 2019.[2][3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Blick, Theo; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Kropf, Christian; Hänggi, Ambros; Kropf, C. (2024). "Gnaphosa lapponum". Spiders of Europe. doi:10.24436/1. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  2. ^ Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Gloor, Daniel; Jäger, Peter; Kropf, Christian (13 September 2019). "Tackling taxonomic redundancy in spiders: the infraspecific spider taxa described by Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters. 58 (1): 39. doi:10.30963/aramit5809. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  3. ^ Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2024). "World Spider Catalog". Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 1 January 2024.