A new species of Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Turkey

Abstract

A new species of the spider genus Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 is described, based on newly collected specimens from Turkey. Detailed morphological descriptions, diagnosis and figures of the copulatory organs of both sexes are presented. Finally, a checklist and distribution maps for Turkish Tegenaria species are provided.

Arthropoda fauna of Zindan Cave (Isparta, Turkey) with notes on new records and some ecological characteristics

“…The type locality is Zindan Cave. Antalya Province, Dim Cave; Isparta Province, Barla Cave; Konya Province, Hacı Akif Cave; Sivas and Ankara Provinces, unknown localities (Kaya et al, 2010).…”

A new genus of Textricini Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Anatolia

“…Agelenidae is relatively well studied in Türkiye due to several regional revisions and other taxonomic and faunistic contributions (e.g., Brignoli 1972Brignoli , 1978aKaya et al 2010;Danışman and Karanfil 2015;Danışman et al 2016;Topçu and Demircan 2018;Dimitrov 2022). Currently, there are 72 species in 16 genera of Agelenidae known from Türkiye (Danışman et al 2022;present paper) Although most of the Turkish agelenids belong to Tegenariini (including 19 endemic species), Textricini is also relatively diverse in this country (i.e., eight species in all four known genera, including one endemic genus and two endemic species; Danışman et al 2022;present paper).…”

“… Agelenidae is relatively well studied in Türkiye due to several regional revisions and other taxonomic and faunistic contributions (e.g., Brignoli 1972 , 1978a , b ; Kaya et al 2010 ; Danışman and Karanfil 2015 ; Danışman et al 2016 ; Topçu and Demircan 2018 ; Dimitrov 2022 ). Currently, there are 72 species in 16 genera of Agelenidae known from Türkiye ( Danışman et al 2022 ; present paper), which is considerably higher than what is known from, for example, Iran (25 species in seven genera; Zamani and Marusik 2019 , 2020 ), the entire Caucasus (36 species in 11 genera; Otto 2022 ), Greece (48 species in 12 genera; Nentwig et al 2023 ), Bulgaria (43 species in 11 genera; Nentwig et al 2023 ), Italy (58 species in 14 genera; Nentwig et al 2023 ), France (41 species in 13 genera; Nentwig et al 2023 ), and Spain (41 species in 13 genera; Nentwig et al 2023 ).…”

Bringing Tegenaria boitanii stat. rev. back to life with a review of the Tegenaria percuriosa-complex (Araneae: Agelenidae), description of a new species and insight into their phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history

“…rev., T. euxinica Dimitrov sp. nov., T. bayrami Kaya et al, 2010, T. angustipalpis Levy, 1996, T. faniapollinis Brignoli, 1978, and T. forestieroi Brignoli, 1978 Males of this complex are characterized by the short thick embolus and the simple conductor with long, narrow base, gradually widening apically. The dorsal part of the conductor is missing.…”

“…Another faunistic record of T. percuriosa was published by Demircan and Topc ¸u (2016). Two more species are close to this complex -Tegenaria bayrami Kaya et al, 2010 and Tegenaria angustipalpis Levy, 1996. When identifying spider material from Strandzha Mountain, Bulgaria we found a species of Tegenaria in which the female epigyne looked similar to the drawings of T. bithyniae by Brignoli (1978b) and Deltshev (1993), but clearly different from those of T. percuriosa, provided by Gasparo (2007) from the type locality. The male also had some stable differences from those of T. percuriosa which prompted us to re-examine the T. percuriosa species complex.…”