Atractides (Atractides) inflatipalpis K. Viets, 1950

Fig. 3

Material examined.

Burdur • TR 3-2024 Akyayla, rheohelocrenic spring, 37.515774°N, 30.35459°E, 22 Apr. 2024, leg. Pešić, Zawal, Gülle & Gülle, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ (sequenced), 1 ♂, 1 ♀ dissected and slide mounted (RMNH) .

Remarks.

In regard to the lineated integument and the shape of I-leg and palp, the examined specimens match the description of Atractides inflatipalpis . These specimens forms a unique BIN (BOLD: AGG 3787), with the nearest neighboring BIN being BOLD: AEF 1145, which include one female from Montenegro morphologically assigned by the first author to A. inflatipalpis . The p - distance between these two BINs was estimated at 3.66 %. In the phylogenetic tree, the BIN is positioned as a sister clade of A. fonticolus . From the latter species, A. inflatipalpis differs in more distant S- 1 and S- 2 setae on I-L- 5, a weakly enlarged S- 2, a slenderer I-L- 6 (Fig. 3 A, B) and the strongly protruding finger-like extension of the male P- 2 (Fig. 3 D).

Distribution.

Mediterranean (Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, France, Italy). In Türkiye previously reported from Erzurum Province (Erman et al. 2010).