Pireneitega birulai (Ermolaev, 1927)

Fomichev, Alexander A., 2020, New data on spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) from the caves of Southwestern Siberia (Russia), Acta Biologica Sibirica 6, pp. 429-436 : 429

Pireneitega birulai (Ermolaev, 1927)

Material examined.

1♂ [2a].

Distribution.

This species has Siberio-Central Asian boreo-montane range ( Marusik et al. 2000). In Siberia, namely in the neighboring Tomsk Oblast, Altai Republic and Tuva Republic, it inhabits diverse habitats: clay cliffs, rocks, birch-aspen and Abies-Pinus sibirica forests and screes ( Ermolajev 1927; Marusik et al. 2000; Azarkina and Trilikauskas 2012).

Notes.

In the WSC (2020) P. birulai is listed as a junior synonym of P. luctuosa (L. Koch, 1878). Pireneitega luctuosa lives in caves in the southern China ( Zhang et al. 2017; Jiang et al. 2018). Yu.M. Marusik (pers. comm.) studied the type specimens of both taxa and came to a conclusion that these are different species.