Palpimanus Dufour, 1820

Zamani, Alireza & Marusik, Yuri M., 2021, A new genus and ten new species of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from Iran, ZooKeys 1054, pp. 95-126 : 95

Genus Palpimanus Dufour, 1820

Comments.

Palpimanus is the most species-rich genus in Palpimaninae , with 35 currently recognized species ( WSC 2021). Although the Mediterranean species have been the subject of two revisions by Kulczyński (1909) and Platnick (1981), the genus remains poorly studied: male palps were illustrated very schematically and endogynes were not illustrated at all. Additionally, there is no proper terminology for the sclerites in the male palp; Platnick (1981) used the neuter terms ‘prong’ and ‘flange’. Within Palpimaninae , the endogynes are very weakly sclerotized and difficult to observe, hence the lack of proper illustrations. The set of illustrations in Platnick (1981: figs 10-18) is very schematic and in some cases appears to be misinterpreted. Both new species found in Iran have male palps rather different from that of the type species ( P. gibbulus Dufour, 1820) and most likely belong to a different, currently undescribed genus.