Palpimanus garmiyanus Zamani & Marusik, 2024

Zamani, Alireza, Khudhur, Farhad A. & Marusik, Yuri M., 2024, New data on spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iraqi Kurdistan, with new species and records, Zootaxa 5492 (2), pp. 260-278 : 270-273

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5492.2.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4C877712-B5C4-451A-87BE-B0C08B2BEC24

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13219354

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E7FE0B-5151-FFEA-FF65-10AAFAC8704F

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Plazi

scientific name

Palpimanus garmiyanus Zamani & Marusik
status

sp. nov.

Palpimanus garmiyanus Zamani & Marusik , sp. n.

Figs 7A–G View FIGURE 7 , 8A–F View FIGURE 8

Type material. Holotype ♂ ( ZMUT), IRAQ: Sulaymaniyah Governorate: Sangaw, Hanara Vil., Sagrma Mt. , 35°18'42.6"N 45°14'58.8"E, 24.03.2022 (F.A. Khudhur). GoogleMaps

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to Garmiyan, a great warm land plain extending beyond the southwestern side of Qara Dagh mountain chain in Sulaymaniyah Governorate.

Diagnosis. The new species differs from the congeners by lacking a tegular apophysis or membranous outgrowth and possessing an unbranched lamella-shaped embolus complex.

Description. Male. Habitus as in Fig. 7B–C View FIGURE 7 . Total length 5.80. Carapace 2.80 long, 2.30 wide. Eye sizes: AME: 0.13, ALE: 0.08, PME: 0.06, PLE: 0.08. Carapace, labium, chelicerae, maxillae and sternum dark reddish, coated with white setae. Leg I red, legs II–IV yellowish-brown, without annulations. All metatarsi and tarsi II–IV with distinct ventral hair tufts. Abdomen dark beige, with scattered long dark setae and a ventral scutum, 2 long diagonal and 2 dot-like scutula ( Fig. 7A View FIGURE 7 ). Spinnerets dark beige. Measurements of legs: I: 6.46 (2.04, 1.76, 1.45, 0.61, 0.60), II: 5.49 (1.65, 1.06, 1.27, 0.95, 0.56), III: 4.53 (1.38, 0.86, 1.01, 0.83, 0.45), IV: 6.24 (1.81, 1.11, 1.48, 1.30, 0.54).

Palp as in Figs 7D–G View FIGURE 7 , 8A–F View FIGURE 8 ; tibia slightly swollen, ca. 1.3 times longer than wide, 1.6 times shorter than cymbium; cymbium almost triangular in dorsal view, 2.6 times longer than wide; tegulum ovate, 1.6 times longer than wide, lacking any outgrowth; embolic complex an almost flat lamina, lacking any prongs, as long as tegulum, with a sinusoidal bend.

Female. Unknown.

Note. Previously, the family Palpimanidae was known from Iraq only by a single record of an unidentified species of Palpimanus Dufour, 1820 from Duhok ( Fomichev et al. 2018). Most likely, the new species described here should be placed in a separate genus. However, due to the lack of a generic revision and the uncertain conformation of the male palp in the type species, Palpimanus gibbulus Dufour, 1820 , we are unable to establish a new genus at this time.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan ( Fig. 10 View FIGURE 10 ).

ZMUT

University of Tokyo, Department of Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Palpimanidae

Genus

Palpimanus

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