Liocranidae Simon, 1897

Zarikian, Noushig A., Propistsova, Evgenia A. & Marusik, Yuri M., 2021, On spider families (Arachnida: Araneae) new to Armenia, Israel Journal of Entomology (Oxford, England) 51 (1), pp. 103-117 : 108

Family Liocranidae Simon, 1897

This family is represented by six species in three genera in the Caucasus ( Otto 2020), and only recently reported from Armenia on the basis of material identified as Liocranum rupicola (Walckenaer, 1830) ( Zarikian & Kalashian 2021) . Still, this family has not been included in the database of Caucasian spiders ( Otto 2020) and in the Mikhailovʼs (2021) catalog. Among the material collected in Armenia, we found Mesiotelus , a genus not mentioned for the Caucasus by Otto (2020) or Mikhailov (2021), although it was reported from the mainland Azerbaijan ( Marusik & Guseinov 2003) and Nakhchivan ( Marusik et al. 2005) as Mesiotelus sp.