Drassodes lapidosus (Walckenaer, 1802)

Hosseini, Mojtaba, Mirshamsi, Omid, Kashefi, Roya & Fekrat, Lida, 2014, A contribution to the knowledge of spiders in wheat fields of Khorasan-e-Razavi Province Iran, Turkish Journal of Zoology 38 (4), pp. 437-443 : 437-438

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https://doi.org/ 10.3906/zoo-1307-16

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scientific name

Drassodes lapidosus (Walckenaer, 1802)
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Drassodes lapidosus (Walckenaer, 1802) View in CoL

Material examined: 3♀ ( ZMFUM), Khorasan-e-Razavi Prov. , Shirvan (37°23′48″N, 57°55′46″E), 15. GoogleMaps VI.2011, M. Hosseini; 2♀ ( ZMFUM), Khorasan-e-Razavi Prov. , Mashhad (36°18′N, 59°36′E), 5. GoogleMaps VI.2012, M. Hosseini.

Distribution in Iran: Guilan, East and West Azerbaijan, Kerman (Roewer, 1955).

General distribution: Palearctic ( Platnick, 2013).

Diagnosis: Carapace yellowish-brown, eye region darker; chelicerae with 3 promarginal and 2 retromarginal denticles; palpal femur with 3 (males) and 3–4 (females) dorsodistal and 1 dorsomedial spines. This species can be distinguished from 2 similar species, i.e. D. chybyndensis

Afghanistan and D. natali , by longer and non-dented tibial apophysis (males) and shape of the epyginum (females) ( Esyunin et al., 2001).

Genus Gnaphosa Latreille, 1804

Gnaphosa lucifuga* (Walckenaer, 1802) ( Figures 2–4 View Figures 2–4 )

Material examined; 9♂, 1♀ ( ZMFUM), Khorasan-e-Razavi Prov. , Mashhad (36°18′N, 59°36′E), 10. GoogleMaps V.2011, M. Hosseini.

General distribution: Palearctic ( Platnick, 2013).

Diagnosis: Body length 10–15 mm in males and 12–19 mm in females; body color dark brown to almost black, the femora of the legs are a little brighter, male palps lighter than body color, prosoma dark red-brown to black-brown, eye region darker, chelicerae darker than prosoma, opisthosoma dark red-brown to black-brown; embolus robust; epigyne with broad scapus that touches protrusions of lateral epigynal margins ( Ovtsharenko et al., 1992).

Genus Haplodrassus Chamberlin, 1922

Haplodrassus dalmatensis (L. Koch, 1866) View in CoL

Material examined: 2♀ ( ZMFUM), Khorasan-e-Razavi Prov. , Fariman (35°42′N, 59°50′E), 10. GoogleMaps V.2012, M. Hosseini; 1♀ ( ZMFUM), Khorasan-e-Razavi Prov. , Gochan (37°06′22″N, 58°30′34″E), 15.IV.2012 GoogleMaps , M. Hosseini.

General distribution: West and Central Palaearctic: North Africa, Europe, South Urals,

Caucasus, Anatolia, Near East, Kazakhstan, Western Turkmenistan, South Siberia ( Mikhailov, 2000; Tuneva and Esyunin, 2003; Levy, 2004; Helsdingen, 2010; Platnick, 2013).

Diagnosis: Males: the terminal apophysis with 2 teethlike apical processes, the embolus with strong tooth; metatarsus I without ventral spines. Females: the epigynal fovea wider than spermathecae and with a peculiar medial septum; metatarsus IV with 3 spines ( Kovblyuk et al., 2012).

Genus Nomisia Dalmas, 1921

Nomisia ripariensis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Material examined: 1♀ ( ZMFUM), Khorasan-e-Razavi Prov. , Mashhad (36°18′N, 59°36′E), 10.V.2011, M. Hosseini GoogleMaps .

Distribution in Iran: Mazandaran, Kerman ( Ghavami, 2006; Kashefi et al., 2013).

General distribution: Bulgaria, Greece to Azerbaijan ( Platnick, 2013).

Diagnosis: Body length 4–8 mm in males and 5.5–9 mm in females; embolus broad with a transparent membrane; ventral tibial apophysis vestigial or completely reduced massive retrolateral apophysis with pointed lateral process ( Nentwig et al., 2013).

Genus Zelotes Gistel, 1848

Zelotes sp.

Material examined: 2♂, 1♀ ( ZMFUM), Khorasan-e-Razavi Prov. , Mashhad (36°18′N, 59°36′E), 10. GoogleMaps V.2011, M. Hosseini; 1♀ ( ZMFUM), Khorasan-e-Razavi Prov. , Neishabour (36.2133°N, 58.7958°E), 15. GoogleMaps V.2011, M. Hosseini.

General distribution: Palearctic ( Platnick, 2013).

Diagnosis: Tarsi of legs III and IV with a dense cluster of hairs on distal part; distance between posterior median eyes almost as long as their diameter.

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Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute

V

Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Gnaphosidae

Genus

Drassodes

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