Gorbiscape is a small genus of funnel weavers. It was first described by Alireza Zamani and Yuri M. Marusik in 2020,.
Distribution First only described from Tajikistan, the genus now also contains species from North Africa, the Canary Islands, and Uzbekistan.
Etymology The name is a combination of "Gorbi", the nickname for Mikhail Gorbachev, and the ending of Agelescape, to which it is similar.
Species , this genus includes eight species:
Gorbiscape agelenoides (Walckenaer, 1841) – Western Mediterranean Gorbiscape amazighus Zamani & Marusik, 2025 – Morocco Gorbiscape canariensis (Lucas, 1838) – Canary Islands, Morocco, Algeria Gorbiscape gomerensis (Wunderlich, 1992) – Canary Islands Gorbiscape gonzalezi (Schmidt, 1980) – Canary Islands Gorbiscape gorbachevi Zamani & Marusik, 2020 – Tajikistan Gorbiscape tenerifensis (Wunderlich, 1992) – Canary Islands Gorbiscape zarafshanicus Fomichev & Shodmonov, 2024 – Uzbekistan
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