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

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: Maimunaantalyensissp. nov. (♂♀; Turkiye: Antalya), Tegenariaballarinisp. nov. (♂♀; Turkiye: Antalya), T.beyazcikasp. nov. (♂; Turkiye: Antalya), T.egrisianasp. nov. (♂♀; Georgia: Imereti), and T.hoeferisp. nov. (♂♀; Armenia: Kotayk). Tegenarialazarovi Dimitrov, 2020, syn. nov. is proposed as a new junior synonym of T.averni Brignoli, 1978. Persiscapecaucasica (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,

SUBMITTER: Zamani A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11605302 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature