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Genus: Anyphaena Sundevall, 1833 | Family: Anyphaenidae Bertkau, 1878

Anyphaena furva Miller, 1967

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023677

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Described:

Distribution: France, Belgium, Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan)

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Museum – Natural History Museum, Praha (NMP), Czech Republic m (P6A-664/15) - (Růžička et al., 2005)

Taxonomic References

Anyphaena obscura Bösenberg, 1902: 258, pl. 24, f. 373 (m; misidentified per Breitling et al., 2015: 67)

Anyphaena furva Miller, 1967: 292, pl. XIV, f. 7 (Dm) Original description

Anyphaena furva Miller, 1971: 64, pl. LXI, f. 4 (m)

Anyphaena furva Růžička, 2001: 46, f. 1-3, 7 (m, Df, probable S of Anyphaena pontica)

Anyphaena furva Bauchhenss, 2009: 153, f. 1a-c, 2 (m)

Anyphaena furva Vidal & Taberlet, 2018: 9, f. 1-2 (m)

Anyphaena furva Nuruyeva, Snegovaya & Maharramov, 2024: 1048, f. 1-2 (m)

Anyphaena furva Logghe et al., 2025b: 88, f. 2A-C (m)

References

Bauchhenss, E. (2009). Beiträge zur Taxonomie von Anyphaena furva Miller, 1967. Contributions to Natural History 12: 153-159. doi: 10.5169/seals-786965 -- Show included taxa

Bösenberg, W. (1902). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. II-IV. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(2-4): 97-384, pl. 9-36. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.6508 -- Show included taxa

Logghe, G., Van Den Broeck, E., Van De Vondel, S. & Van Houtven, K. (2025b). Anyphaena furva Miller, 1967 (Araneae, Anyphaenidae), a new addition to the Belgian spider fauna. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 39(2, 2024): 88-91. [[publ. end of Jan. 2025]] -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1967). Studien über die Kopulationsorgane der Spinnengattung Zelotes, Micaria, Robertus und Dipoena nebst Beschreibung einiger neuen oder unvollkommen bekannten Spinnenarten. Přírodovědné práce ústavů Československé Akademie Věd v Brně (N.S.) 1: 251-298. -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. -- Show included taxa

Nuruyeva, T. V., Snegovaya, N. Y. & Maharramov, M. M. (2024). Three new records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan. Acta Biologica Sibirica 10: 1047-1052. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.13831356 -- Show included taxa

Růžička, V. (2001). The female of Anyphaena furva Miller (Araneae: Anyphaenidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12(1): 46-48. -- Show included taxa

Vidal, E. & Taberlet, J.-P. (2018). Découverte en France de Anyphaena furva Miller, 1967 (Araneae, Anyphaenidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 5: 9-10. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-02-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Logghe et al., 2025b
2025-02-07	Species distribution update	Logghe et al., 2025b	Old value
2024-09-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Nuruyeva, Snegovaya & Maharramov, 2024
2024-09-28	Species distribution update	Nuruyeva, Snegovaya & Maharramov, 2024	Old value
2018-10-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Vidal & Taberlet, 2018
2018-10-05	Species distribution update	Vidal & Taberlet, 2018	Old value
2015-10-20	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon	Breitling et al., 2015	Old value