Zaitunia huberi, Sergei Zonstein & Yuri M. Marusik, 2016

Sergei Zonstein & Yuri M. Marusik, 2016, A revision of the spider genus Zaitunia (Araneae, Filistatidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 214, pp. 1-97 : 60-62

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2016.214

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CA243C98-9461-441A-BBD9-ECBDEC103DD9

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5634897

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F999D3D3-7D62-44BD-9297-AB022AEA817E

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:F999D3D3-7D62-44BD-9297-AB022AEA817E

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Zaitunia huberi
status

sp. nov.

Zaitunia huberi View in CoL sp. nov.

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Fig. 30 View Fig. 30 A–F

Filistata afghana Roewer, 1962: 12 , figs 6, 9 (♀, in part, misidentified).

Zaitunia afghana View in CoL – Zonstein et al. 2013: 69 View Cited Treatment , figs 13, 21–27 (♀, misidentified).

Diagnosis

By structure of the vulva, Z. huberi sp. nov. resemble Z. beshkentica but differ from them by the shape of the median receptacles, which are shorter and round (vs longer and tube-shaped in Z. beshkentica , cf. Figs 29 View Fig. 29 I–K, 30C–E).

Etymology

The specific epithet is given after the prominent German arachnologist Bernhard Huber, who has transferred some misplaced Asian genera from Pholcidae to Filistatidae .

Material examined

Holotype

AFGHANISTAN: ♀, surroundings of Pol-e Khumri city, 35º57' N, 68º42' E, 700 m, 9 Nov. 1957, K. Lindberg ( SMF). GoogleMaps

Paratype

AFGHANISTAN: 1 juv., collected and deposited together with holotype.

Description

Female

HABITUS. See Fig. 30 View Fig. 30 A–B.

COLOUR. Whole body and legs light brownish-yellow, abdomen without dorsal pattern, tarsi of palp and legs I–IV darkened, eye tubercle blackish-brown.

CARAPACE. 2.13 long, 1.77 wide.

EYES. AME 0.09, ALE 0.23, PLE 0.20, PME 0.20, AME–AME 0.11.

ENDOGYNE ( Fig. 30 View Fig. 30 C–E). Both pairs of receptacles globular, median receptacles separated from each other by the same distance as lateral and median receptacles; median receptacles larger, separated by less than one diameter.

LEG MEASUREMENTS.

  Femur Patella Tibia Metatarsus Tarsus Total
Palp 1.17 0.65 0.87 0.97 3.66
I 2.33 0.87 2.23 1.97 1.30 8.70
II 1.97 0.83 1.65 1.63 1.05 7.13
III 1.75 0.75 1.33 1.38 0.97 6.18
IV 2.37 0.80 1.85 1.83 1.03 7.88

Male

Unknown.

Note

See comments in the redescription of the holotype of Z. afghana . Both of these species are very similar in somatic characters, which probably misled Roewer (1962). Nevertheless, they differ so drastically in the structure of the endogyne (cf. Figs 14 View Fig. 14 G–K, 30C–E) that they are assigned here to different species groups.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality ( Fig. 49 View Fig. 49 ).

SMF

Forschungsinstitut und Natur-Museum Senckenberg

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Filistatidae

Genus

Zaitunia

Loc

Zaitunia huberi

Sergei Zonstein & Yuri M. Marusik 2016
2016
Loc

Filistata afghana

Roewer C. F. 1962: 12
1962
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