Harpactea zagros Zamani & Marusik, 2023

Zamani, Alireza, Darvishnia, Hamid & Marusik, Yuri M., 2023, New data on cave spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iran, with new species and records, Zootaxa 5361 (3), pp. 345-366 : 351-352

Harpactea zagros Zamani & Marusik , sp. n.

Figs 4B , 6A–C

Type material. Holotype ♂ ( ZMUT), IRAN: Ilam Province: Sarabeleh, Aseman Abad, Raad-e Gharbi Cave , 33°55'15.10''N, 46°25'33.50''E, 1505 m, 8.X.2014 (H. Darvishnia).

Etymology. The specific epithet is a noun in apposition after the Zagros Mountains, a mountain range in Iran, northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey, in which the type locality of the new species is situated.

Diagnosis. The new species is most similar to H. christodeltshevi Bayram, Kunt & Yağmur, 2009 from Turkey, but differs from it by the bulb being wider than it is long (vs. longer than wide), and the relatively longer embolus (> 0.5 of bulb width, vs. ca. 2.3 times shorter than bulb’s width; cf. Fig. 6A–C and Özkütük et al. 2019: figs 8–9).

Description. Male. Habitus as in Fig. 4B . Total length 5.18. Carapace 2.35 long, 1.70 wide. Eye sizes: AME 0.09, PME 0.08, PLE 0.09. Carapace, chelicerae, sternum, labium and maxillae light brown. Chelicerae with 2 pro- and 2 retromarginal teeth. Legs yellowish. Abdomen beige, without any pattern. Spinnerets uniformly light beige. Measurements of legs: I: 7.65 (2.16, 1.36, 1.91, 1.72, 0.50), II: 7.35 (2.05, 1.23, 1.85, 1.70, 0.52), III: 5.85 (1.60, 0.83, 1.30, 1.60, 0.52), IV: 8.26 (2.28, 1.08, 1.96, 2.37, 0.57). Spination: Legs: I: Fm: 2pl. II: Fm: 3pl. III: Fm: 3d, 3pl, 3rl; Pa: 1pl; Ti: 3pl, 2rl, 4v; Mt: 3pl, 2rl, 5v. IV: Fm: 5d, 1pl, 3rl; Ti: 2pl, 2rl, 8v; Mt: 5pl, 5rl, 6v.

Palp as in Fig. 6A–C ; femur slightly bent, 6.5 times longer than wide; patella ca. as long as tibia, together slightly longer than femur; bulb slightly wider than long in lateral view, oval in anterior view, ca. 1.2 times longer than wide, ca. 1.3 times wider than tibia’s length; embolus roundly bent, subparallel to tibia, 1.8 times shorter than bulb’s width in lateral view and ca. 0.66 of bulb’s width in ventral view; ‘conductor’ (‘ Cd ’) subparallel to embolus, ca. 3 times shorter than embolus, its tip claw-like.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality in Raad-e Gharbi Cave ( Fig. 16D ), Ilam Province, western Iran ( Fig. 17 ).

Figures

FIGURE 4. Habitus of Dysdera elamana sp. n. (A) and Harpactea zagros sp. n. (B), males, dorsal view.

FIGURE 6. Male palp of Harpactea zagros sp. n. A prolateral view; B ventral view; C retrolateral view. Scale bars: 0.2 mm. Abbreviations: ‘Cd’—‘conductor’, Em—embolus.

FIGURE 16. Some of the collection localities of the material reported in this study. A Markhareil; B Mir Melas; C Mooly; D Raad-e Gharbi. Photos by Mohammad Javad Malek-Hosseini.

FIGURE 17. Partial map of Iran, showing the collection localities of the material reported in this study. 1 Ali Sheikh Cave; 2 Barreh Zard Cave; 3 Chehel Sotoon Cave; 4 Darreh-ye Ashkaft Cave; 5 Dengezlu Cave; 6 Gakal Cave; 7 Gelim Goosh Cave; 8 Hamzeh Zendan Cave; 9 Jabiglu Cave; 10 Kabootarlan Cave; 11 Kahman Cave; 12 Kerend Cave; 13 Khoffash Cave, Mar Kelga Cave; 14 Malek Cave, Markhareil Cave; 15 Mir Melas Cave; 16 Mooly Cave; 17 Pir Morad Cave; 18 Raad-e Gharbi Cave; 19 Tang-e Kaboutari; 20 Tang-e-Lor Cave; 21 Tang-e Zendan Cave; 22 Tashan Cave; 23 Torang Cave; 24 Var-e-Zamin Cave; 25 Yaran Cave.