Berlandina nabozhenkoi Ponomarev & Tsvetkov, 2006

Marusik, Yuri M., Fomichev, Alexander A. & Omelko, Mikhail M., 2014, A survey of East Palaearctic Gnaphosidae (Araneae). 1. On the Berlandina Dalmas, 1922 (Gnaphosinae) from Mongolia and adjacent regions, Zootaxa 3827 (2), pp. 187-213 : 210-212

Berlandina nabozhenkoi Ponomarev & Tsvetkov, 2006

Figs 105–110

B. n. Ponomarev & Tsvetkov 2006: 5, f. 1–2 (♂). B. n.: Ponomarev 2008b: 79, f. 1–2 (♂♀).

Material examined: RUSSIA, Astrakhan’ Area: holotype ♂ ( ZMMU), Ikryaninskiy Dist., environs of Kapitanskiy Ilmen’ (47°07’N, 47°42’E), 29.04.2006 (M.V.Nabozhenko).

Diagnosis. Males of this species differ from other congeners except Berlandina cinerea (Menge, 1872) by the large tibial apophysis (1/2 of cymbial length), the long and thin embolus starting at 8 o’clock with a strongly (90°) bent tip. From B. cinerea it differs by the thin and bent embolus. The female of B. nabozhenkoi is similar to that of B. yakovlevi sp. n., from which it can be distinguished by the thinner septum.

Comments. The species is well described in above mentioned papers. We were not able to study and to illustrate the female of this species.

Distribution. It is known from two localities in Astrakhan’ Region and Kalmykia.

MAP 1. Known records of 14 Berlandina species in Central Palaearctic. ♦ caspica , + hui , © koponeni sp. n., • mishenini sp. n., ★ nabozhenkoi , ˔ nakonechnyi sp. n., ♦ nenilini , ˑ ovtsharenkoi sp. n., x potanini , • saraevi , ♠ schenkeli , ° spasskyi , * ubsunurica , ⋅ yakovlevi sp. n.

Figures

FIGURES 105 – 110. Habitus and male palp of Berlandina nabozhenkoi. 105 – 107 male palp, ventral, retrolateral and dorsal; 108 bulbus and cymbium, ventro-apical; 109 palp, prolateral; 110 habitus.