Gorbiscape
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Gorbiscape is a small genus of funnel weavers. It was first described by Alireza Zamani and Yuri M. Marusik in 2020, .
Gorbiscape is a small genus of funnel weavers. It was first described by Alireza Zamani and Yuri M. Marusik in 2020, .
Distribution
First only described from Tajikistan, the genus now also contains species from North Africa, the Canary Islands, and Uzbekistan.
Etymology
The name is a combination of "Gorbi", the nickname for Mikhail Gorbachev, and the ending of Agelescape, to which it is similar.
Species
, this genus includes eight species: Gorbiscape agelenoides (Walckenaer, 1841) – Western Mediterranean Gorbiscape amazighus Zamani & Marusik, 2025 – Morocco Gorbiscape canariensis (Lucas, 1838) – Canary Islands, Morocco, Algeria Gorbiscape gomerensis (Wunderlich, 1992) – Canary Islands Gorbiscape gonzalezi (Schmidt, 1980) – Canary Islands Gorbiscape gorbachevi Zamani & Marusik, 2020 – Tajikistan Gorbiscape tenerifensis (Wunderlich, 1992) – Canary Islands Gorbiscape zarafshanicus Fomichev & Shodmonov, 2024 – Uzbekistan
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