A new species of Parasyrisca Schenkel, 1963 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from the Altai
Journal: Zootaxa
Year: 2010

Parasyrsca is a Holarctic gnaphosid genus which currently includes 46 species (Platnick, 2010). Although it is found both in the Palaearctic and Nearctic only one species is known from the Western Nearctic, P. orites (Chamberlin &amp; Gertsch, 1940). The majority of species occur in the mountains of Central Asia, South Siberia, and the Caucasus. The genus is relatively well studied due to revision by Ovtsharenko et al. (1995), which included 44 species. During the 15 years that have passed since