The spider genus Pterotricha in Iran, with the description of a new genus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)
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Zamani, Alireza
Author
Seiedy, Marjan
Author
Saboori, Alireza
Author
Marusik, Yuri M.
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ZooKeys
2018
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.777.26745
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.777.26745
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Pterotricha
Kulczynski
, 1903: 43.
Bobineus
Roewer 1955
: 773.
Pterotricha
:
Dalmas 1921
: 248;
Levy 1995
: 944;
Murphy 2007
: 122-123.
Type species.
Aranea lentiginosa
C. L. Koch, 1837.
Comments.
The genus belongs to
Gnaphosinae
, and like all other members of this subfamily has a serrated keel on chelicera. It is easily distinguished from all other
Gnaphosinae
by long to very long spinnerets (Figs 1c, 4a, 6
a-b
, 10
b-c
, 11g), the male palp with squarrose tibial apophysis and a heavily sclerotized (non-membranous) and pointed
"conductor"
. Most of the species have a stylus on embolus (vs. lacking in all other genera).
Distribution.
The genus is known from Spain to South Africa, to western India, with a single, doubtful record of
Pterotricha saga
(
Doenitz
& Strand, 1906) from Japan (most likely belonging to
Callilepis
Westring, 1874).