Spider fauna (Aranei) of the Mongolian Altai: families Cheiracanthiidae, Clubionidae, Gnaphosidae, Philodromidae, Theridiidae, Thomisidae
An annotated check-list of 34 spider species from 13 genera and 6 families the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) recorded from Mongolian Altai is presented. Nine species, Cheiracanthium oncognathum Thorell, 1871, Gnaphosa lucifuga Walckenaer, 1802, G. orites Chamberlin, 1922, G. pilosa Savelyeva, 1972, G. sticta Kulczyсski, 1908, Micaria mongunica Danilov, 1996(1997), M. subopaca Westring, 1861, Parasyrisca logunovi Ovtsharenko, Platnick et Marusik, 1995 and Thanatus tuvinensis Logunov, 1996 are registered for Mongolia for the first time, as well as five species, Gnaphosa wiehlei Schenkel, 1963, Zelotes puritanus Chamberlin, 1922, Thanatus mongolicus Schenkel, 1936, Th. pictus L. Koch, 1881 and Ozyptila inaequalis Kulczyсski, 1901 are newly recorded for Mongolian Altai mountains.