Dysdera damavandica, Zamani & Marusik & Szűts, 2023

Zamani, Alireza, Marusik, Yuri M. & Szűts, Tamas, 2023, A survey of the spider genus Dysdera Latreille, 1804 (Araneae, Dysderidae) in Iran, with fourteen new species and notes on two fossil genera, ZooKeys 1146, pp. 43-86 : 43

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1146.97517
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scientific name	Dysdera damavandica
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Dysdera damavandica sp. nov.

Figs 25A-C View Figure 25 , 26A-D View Figure 26

Type material.

Holotype ♂ (ZMUT), Iran: Mazandaran Province: Polur, surroundings of Mount Damavand, 35°50'N, 52°03'E, 10.2015 (A. Zamani).

Etymology.

The specific epithet is an adjective, referring to the type locality of the species.

Diagnosis.

The male of the new species is most similar to that of D. concinna L. Koch, 1878 from Azerbaijan, but differs by longer bulb (i.e., bulb length/tegulum width =3.1, vs. 2.7), relatively shorter median crest, and longer stylus (cf. Fig. 26A View Figure 26 and Dunin 1982: fig. B). Dysdera damavandica sp. nov. is also similar to D. tapuria sp. nov. but differs by the median crest higher than wide (vs. wider than high), relatively longer stylus (cf. Fig. 26A View Figure 26 and Fig. 30A View Figure 30 ) and posterior apophysis located at distal half of the bulb (vs. located at mid-part).

Description.

Male. Habitus as in Fig. 25A-C View Figure 25 . Total length 10.40. Carapace 5.53 long, 4.12 wide. Eye diameters: AME 0.18, PME 0.19, PLE 0.23. Carapace, sternum, chelicerae, labium, and maxillae reddish brown. Legs dark orange. Abdomen greyish, without any pattern. Spinnerets uniformly greyish. Measurements of legs: I: 15.64 (4.51, 2.54, 4.12, 3.56, 0.91), II: 15.12 (4.16, 2.67, 3.73, 3.69, 0.87), III: 10.91 (3.21, 1.73, 2.22, 3.01, 0.74), IV: 13.75 (3.82, 2.02, 3.13, 3.94, 0.84). Spination: I: Fe: 2pl. II: Fe: 2pl. III: Fe: 1pl; Ti: 4pl, 2rl, 5v; Mt: 3pl, 2rl, 3v. IV: Fe: 7d; Ti: 2pl, 3rl, 5v; Mt: 4pl, 3rl, 5v.

Palp as in Fig. 26A-D View Figure 26 ; bulb ca. 3.1 × longer than wide; tegulum bell-shaped, almost as long as wide; psembolus 2.77 × longer than tegulum; median crest (Mc) triangular, ca. 6.65 × shorter than length of psembolus, higher than wide; posterior apophysis (Ap) rounded; incision between tegulum and psembolus present; retrolateral crest almost straight; stylus (St) straight, longer than median crest.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution.

Known only from the type locality in Mazandaran Province, northern Iran (Fig. 35 View Figure 35 ).