A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic
Authors: Zamani, Alireza; Nuruyeva, T.; Snegovaya, N.; Freyhof, Jörg; Mustafayev, Namiq; Marusik, Yuri M.
Publisher: British Arachnological Society
Publication year: 2025
Journal: Arachnology
Volume: 20
Issue: 1
First page : 132
Last page: 137
ISSN: 2050-9928
eISSN: 2050-9936
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132(external)
Web address : https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132(external)
New faunistic data on spiders of Azerbaijan are presented. Thirteen species are recorded from this country for the first time: Araniella villanii Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020 (Araneidae), Cesonia aspida Chatzaki, 2002, Civizelotes solstitialis (Levy, 1998), Cryptodrassus hungaricus (Balogh, 1935), Gnaphosa cumensis Ponomarev, 1981, G. ukrainica Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Song, 1992, Micaria atropatene Zamani & Marusik, 2021, Trichothyse senilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872), Turkozelotes attavirus Chatzaki, 2019 (all Gnaphosidae),Trichonephila clavata (L. Koch, 1878) (Nephilidae), Neottiura uncinata (Lucas, 1846), Paidiscura pallens (Blackwall, 1834)(both Theridiidae), and Xysticus edax (O. Pickard-Cambridge,1872) (Thomisidae); the genera Cesonia Simon, 1893 and Trichonephila Dahl, 1911 are newly recorded from the Caucasus. The record of T. clavata represents the first documented introduction of this family in the Western Palaearctic.
Funding information in the publication:
The research of Alireza Zamani was supported by a grant from the Turku University Foundation (ID 081820).
