Description of the Hitherto Unknown Female of Pelecopsis topcui (Türkeş et. al. 2015), comb.n. (Araneae, Linyphiidae)

A survey of the spider genus Dysdera Latreille, 1804 (Araneae, Dysderidae) in Iran, with fourteen new species and notes on two fossil genera

“…Considering the results of this paper, there are 17 species of three genera of Dysderidae known from Iran. This number is considerably lower than what is known for the neighbouring Turkey (i.e., 69 species in seven genera; Danışman et al 2022 ) and the Caucasus (i.e., 65 species in seven genera; Otto 2022 ). The material treated here, although comprising a relatively large number of new species, were collected in a few localities primarily in northern parts of the country (Fig.…”

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

“…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). As it has been mentioned earlier, members of this tribe are primarily distributed in the Mediterranean region.…”

“… 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 ). Indeed, in terms of the diversity of agelenids in the Palaearctic, Türkiye is only second to China (>445 species in 35 genera; Li 2020 ).…”