Catalogue of the spider collection (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Museum of Nature of the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Part 1
Journal: The Kharkov Entomological Society Gazette
Year: 2025

The arachnological collection at the Museum of Nature of the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University was established by I. Krynicki in the 1830s as part of the Zoological Cabinet collection in Imperial University of Kharkiv. The initial catalog from 1854 listed only 22 species of spiders. Two species from this collection were described as new for science; one of them (Epeira ancora) was later synonymized, and a specimen of another one (Drassodes charcoviae) has not survived. Although it has a