Prodidomus inexpectatus, Zamani & Chatzaki & Esyunin & Marusik, 2021

Zamani, Alireza, Chatzaki, Maria, Esyunin, Sergei L. & Marusik, Yuri M., 2021, One new genus and nineteen new species of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Iran, with other taxonomic considerations, European Journal of Taxonomy 751 (1), pp. 68-114 : 96-97

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2021.751.1381

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4906485

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/49D2D1DB-4FB3-4631-8A0C-7B8351270929

taxon LSID

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treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Prodidomus inexpectatus
status

sp. nov.

Prodidomus inexpectatus View in CoL sp. nov.

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Fig. 18 View Fig

Diagnosis

The new species is very similar to P. redikorzevi Spassky, 1940 from which it differs by the shape of the tibial apophysis (with longer claw-like tip, and smaller dorsal lobe).

Etymology

The specific epithet is an adjective and refers to the unexpected discovery of a new species of this genus in Iran.

Type material

Holotype IRAN • ♂; Hormozgan Province, 75 km N of Bandar Abbas, Siahu ; 27°33′ N, 55°38′ E; 16 Feb. 2018; A. Zamani leg.; MHNG. GoogleMaps

Description

Male

Habitus as in Fig. 18A–B View Fig . Total length 2.32. Carapace 0.98 long, 0.84 wide. Sternum 0.72 long, 0.55 wide. Eye sizes: AME = 0.09, ALE = 0.08, PME = 0.11, PLE = 0.10. Body flattened, carapace ovoid. Ocular area triangular. Carapace, sternum, labium, chelicerae and maxillae dark yellow, without any pattern and with slightly darker margins. Chelicera ( Fig. 18G View Fig ) without teeth. Legs the same color as carapace, without annulations. Abdomen and spinnerets light gray and without any pattern. Leg III measurements: 2.39 (0.65, 0.37, 0.44, 0.49, 0.44), rest of the legs missing.

Palp as in Fig. 18C–F, H–I View Fig . Femur length/width ratio 3.33; tibia with broad retrolateral apophysis and small, spine-like dorsal apophysis; lateral apophysis with claw-like tip and dorsal small lobe; cymbium elongated, oval, 1.7 times as long as wide, tip rounded; tegulum protruding ventrally, in lateral view, longer than cymbium’s width; embolus long, making roughly 2.25 loops.

Female

Unknown.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in Hormozgan Province, southern Iran.

MHNG

Museum d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Prodidomidae

Genus

Prodidomus

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