Persiscape gideoni ( Levy, 1996 ) Zamani & Marusik, 2020

Zamani, Alireza & Marusik, Yuri M., 2020, A review of Agelenini (Araneae: Agelenidae: Ageleninae) of Iran and Tajikistan, with descriptions of four new genera, Arachnology 18 (4), pp. 368-386 : 376-377

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https://doi.org/ 10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.368

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/75207B3E-B00B-FFF1-A23D-FAA2FE7F1124

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scientific name

Persiscape gideoni ( Levy, 1996 )
status

comb. nov.

Persiscape gideoni ( Levy, 1996) View in CoL comb. n.

( Figs. 3 View Fig C–D, 6A, I, 9A, 11C–D, 12H–L, 15C)

Agelescape gideoni Levy 1996: 91 View in CoL , figs. 20–23 (♂♀).

Agelescape dunini Guseinov, Marusik & Koponen 2005: 158 , figs. 1–2, 6–8 (♂♀), syn. n.

Agelescape gideoni: Zamani et al. 2016: 101 View in CoL , figs. 1–3 (♀).

Material examined: IRAN: Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari Province: 1♀ ( MHNG), Farsan , 32°17′N 50°31′E, 11 August 1973 (A. Senglet) GoogleMaps ; Golestan Province: 1♀ ( MHNG), Tang-e Rah , 37°25′N 55°45′E, 28 July 1974 (A. Senglet) GoogleMaps ; Isfahan Province: 1♀ ( MHNG), Riz-e-Landjan , 32°24′N 51°19′E, 1600 m, 11 August 1973 (A. Senglet) GoogleMaps ; Kerman Province: 3♂ ( MHNG), Baft, Kuh-e Shah, August 2018 (A. Zamani) ; Qazvin Province: 1♀ ( MHNG), Hassanabad , 36°26′N 50°13′E, 1750 m, 03 July 1975 (A. Senglet) GoogleMaps ; Tehran Province: 1♂ 1♀ 15 juv. ( MMUE), ~ 80 km E of Tehran, Damavand area, Aroo Vil., 35°40′N 52°27′E, 15 June 2000 (Y. M. Marusik, F. Mozaffarian); 2♂ 1♀ 1 juv. ( MMUE), Latian Dam , 35°48′N 51°08′E, 06–19 June 2000 (Y. M. Marusik); 3♂ 3♀ 1 juv. ( MMUE), 5 km N of Tehran, Tochal Mountain , 35°53′N 51°20′E, 2000–2900 m, 16 June 2000 (Y. M. Marusik, F. Mozaffarian, R. Bahramishad) GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis: Males of P. gideoni differ from P. nassirkhanii sp. n. and P. zagrosensis sp. n. by lacking round or triangular extensions (Ee) near the base of the embolus ( Figs. 6A, I View Fig , 9A View Fig ). Females of P. gideoni are most similar to those of P. levyi by having a bifurcate scape. The two species can be separated by the relative width of the scape and fovea: in P. gideoni , the fovea is 2.5× wider than the scape and in P. levyi it is 2× wider ( Fig. 12H View Fig ).

Description: Described by Levy (1996) and Guseinov, Marusik & Koponen (2005, sub A. dunini ).

Remarks: Zamani et al. (2016) mentioned that the shape of the epigyne is highly variable in A. dunini ( Azerbaijan) , showing left-right asymmetry. Therefore, A. dunini differs from P. gideoni only by the bifurcated scape, the anchorshaped foveal plate, and body size, all of which are highly variable even within the same population. Considering this, and that the males of A. dunini and P. gideoni do not differ morphologically, we consider A. dunini a junior synonym of P. gideoni .

Records in Iran: Alborz, Mazandaran, Tehran, ( Zamani et al. 2020), Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari, Golestan, Isfahan, Kerman, Qazvin (current data).

Distribution: Israel to Iran (15C).

MHNG

Museum d'Histoire Naturelle

MMUE

Museum of Manchester University

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Agelenidae

Genus

Persiscape

Loc

Persiscape gideoni ( Levy, 1996 )

Zamani, Alireza & Marusik, Yuri M. 2020
2020
Loc

Agelescape gideoni:

ZAMANI, A. & MIRSHAMSI, O. & RASHIDI, P. & MARUSIK, Y. M. & MORADMAND, M. & BOLZERN, A. 2016: 101
2016
Loc

Agelescape dunini

GUSEINOV, E. & MARUSIK, Y. M. & KOPONEN, S. 2005: 158
2005
Loc

Agelescape gideoni

LEVY, G. 1996: 91
1996
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