New taxonomic and faunistic data on the funnel-weavers (Araneae, Agelenidae) of Turkiye and the Caucasus, with five new species

By

Zamani, Alireza
Kaya, Rahşen S.
Marusik, Yuri M.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2024

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1218

Pages

251--286

Subjects

Anatolia , Armenia , Georgia , Maimuna , new record , new synonymy , Persiscape , Tegenaria

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1218.135249

 

Abstract

New taxonomic and faunistic data on the agelenid spiders of Turkiye and the Caucasus are provided. Five species are described as new to science: Maimuna antalyensissp. nov. (♂♀; Turkiye: Antalya), Tegenaria ballarinisp. nov. (♂♀; Turkiye: Antalya), T. beyazcikasp. nov. (♂; Turkiye: Antalya), T. egrisianasp. nov. (♂♀; Georgia: Imereti), and T. hoeferisp. nov. (♂♀; Armenia: Kotayk). Tegenaria lazarovi Dimitrov, 2020, syn. nov. is proposed as a new junior synonym of T. averni Brignoli, 1978. Persiscape caucasica (Guseinov, Marusik & Koponen, 2005) is newly reported from Armenia, and T. chumachenkoi Kovblyuk & Ponomarev, 2008 is reported for the first time from Turkiye. New distribution records for T. dalmatica Kulczyński, 1906, T. hamid Brignoli, 1978, T. longimana Simon, 1898 and T. percuriosa Brignoli, 1972, and topotype material for T. tekke Brignoli, 1978 are reported. The record of Eratigena fuesslini (Pavesi, 1873) from Turkiye is found to be based on a misidentification, and is herein attributed to T. hamid. The presence of an embolic spine, unknown in any other species of Tegenaria, is documented in T. anhela Brignoli, 1972 for the first time. Photographs are provided for all treated species.