Gorbiscape

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Gorbiscape
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Agelenidae
Genus: Gorbiscape
Zamani & Marusik, 2020 [1]
Type species
G. gorbachevi
Zamani & Marusik, 2020
Species

8, see text

Gorbiscape is a small genus of funnel weavers. It was first described by Alireza Zamani and Yuri M. Marusik in 2020, [2] .

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Distribution

First only described from Tajikistan, the genus now also contains species from North Africa, the Canary Islands, and Uzbekistan. [1]

Etymology

The name is a combination of "Gorbi", the nickname for Mikhail Gorbachev, and the ending of Agelescape , to which it is similar. [2]

Species

As of January 2026, this genus includes eight species: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Zamani & Marusik, 2020". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2026-01-28.
  2. 1 2 Zamani, A.; Marusik, Y. M. (2020). "A review of Agelenini (Araneae: Agelenidae: Ageleninae) of Iran and Tajikistan, with descriptions of four new genera" . Arachnology. 18 (4): 368–386. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.368. S2CID   214702963.

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