Redescription of Dysdera cylindrica (Aranei: Dysderidae) from Pakistan with notes on the distribution of the family
Journal: rej
Year: 2017

<em>Dysdera cylindrica</em> O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 is redescribed based on the lectotype male (designated here) and paralectotype female. The species was collected in northern Punjab, Pakistan, but not in Kashmir as indicated in the World Spider Catalog [2017]. <em>Dysdera cylindrica </em>together with <em>D. arnoldii</em> Charitonov, 1956 and <em>D. subcylindrica</em> Charitonov, 1956 form comprise the <em>cylindrica </em>species group. Dysderidae is a single family of spiders endemic to Pa