Abstract
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 & 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 that revision, four species have been described from China, the Crimea and Hungary (Tang & Zhao 1998; Kovblyuk 2003; Marusik & Fritzén 2009; Szinetár et al. 2009). While studying the fauna of the Altai we found specimens that belonged to an undescribed species. The goal of this paper is to provide a detailed description of this new species.
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