Maimuna vestita (C. L. Koch, 1841 )

Dimitrov, Dragomir, 2022, A review of the genus Maimuna Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae, Agelenidae) in Turkey with a description of a new species, Zootaxa 5124 (3), pp. 383-390 : 388-389

Maimuna vestita (C. L. Koch, 1841)

Figs 10–12 , 19–20 , 27 , 28

Textrix vestita: Pavesi, 1876: 63 .

T. vestita: Nosek, 1905: 118 .

T. vestita: Caporiacco, 1935: 288 .

T. vestita: Drensky, 1936: 28 .

M. vestita: Brignoli, 1978: 506 , figs 49–50.

M. vestita: Lecigne, 2011: 10 .

M. vestita: Demir & Seyyar, 2017: 434 .

Material examined. 2♂ 1♀, Greece, Thesprotia , 06.11.1974, A. Vigna leg. ( MCSN) .

Diagnosis. This species is morphologically similar to Maimuna cretica (Kulczyński, 1903) , having a wide median apophysis of the male palp and similar shapes of the epigyne and vulva. The male can be separated by (1) the fan-shaped median apophysis and (2) the large, straight and well sclerotized terminal end of the ventral part of the conductor ( Figs 10 , 27 ). The female differs by the wide, oval epigynal plate, wider than the epigynal hood ( Fig 19 ), and the narrow receptacles ( Fig 20 ).

Description. See Blaue (1980: 46, sub Textrix vestita ).

Distribution. Eastern Mediterranean, Balkan Peninsula, Ukraine. All of the records of M. vestita from Turkey are from the easternmost part of the country, near to the Mediterranean and Marmara coasts.

Remarks. I was not able to examine the Turkish material of this species but the drawings provided by Brignoli (1976) and Lecigne (2011) leave no doubt about its identity. Since it is the type species of the genus, I provide new photographs and drawings based on specimens from Greece.

Figures

FIGURE 28. The distribution of the genus Maimuna in Turkey.

FIGURES 4–12. 4–6 Maimuna anatolica sp. n., holotype male, right palp (flipped). 7–9 Maimuna cariae, paratype male, left palp. 10–12 Maimuna vestita, male, left palp. 1,7, 10 ventral 5, 8, 11 retrolateral; 6, 9, 12 prolateral. Scale line: 0.5 mm

FIGURES 13–20. 13–16 Maimuna anatolica sp. n., females paratypes. 17–18 Maimuna cariae, female paratype. 19–20 Maimuna vestita, female. 13–15, 17, 19 epigyne, ventral view; 16, 18, 20 vulva, dorsal view. Scale line: 0.5 mm

FIGURES 21–27. 21–23 Maimuna anatolica sp. n., male holotype. 24–25 Maimuna anatolica sp. n., female paratype. 26 Maimuna cariae, male paratype. 27 Maimuna vestita, male. 21, 26–27 palp, ventral. 22 palp prolateral. 23 palp retrolateral. 24 epigyne, ventral view. 25 vulva, dorsal view. Scale line: 0.5 mm