A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Two new species of Theridiidae from Iran, and the revalidation of Enoplognatha submargarita Yaginuma & Zhu, 1992 (Arachnida: Araneae)




AuthorsZamani Alireza, Marusik Yuri M.

PublisherBritish Arachnological Society

Publication year2021

JournalArachnology

Volume18

Issue8

First page 957

Last page964

eISSN2050-9936

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2021.18.8.957


Abstract

Two new species of theridiid spiders are described from northern Iran: Episinus mikhailovi sp. n. (♂♀, Gilan and Mazandaran provinces) and Theridion arsia sp. n. (♀, Qazvin Province); the latter has a unique type of thread-like mating plug previously undocumented in the family. Furthermore, Enoplognatha submargarita Yaginuma & Zhu, 1992, stat. reval. is rediagnosed and removed from the synonymy of Enoplognatha margarita Yaginuma, 1964, and a unique line of fine perforations connecting the copulatory openings are newly documented for this species. Finally, the first records of E. margarita from Mongolia and E. submargarita from Kyrgyzstan are also presented.



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