Poecilochroa senilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Seropian, Armen, Bulbulashvili, Natalia, Krammer, Hans-Joachim, Thormann, Jana, Hein, Nils, Karalashvili, Elisabeth, Kachlishvili, Nino & Datunashvili, Anastasia, 2024, Picking pearls from the Silk Road: Insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus Barcode of Life (CaBOL) project. Part III, Caucasiana 3, pp. 89-118 : 89

* Poecilochroa senilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Figs 14-15

Poecilochroa senilis Murphy, 2007: 50, figs 370-371 (♂♀).

Poecilochroa senilis Bosmans & Gavalas, 2023: 50, figs 26A-D (♂♀).

Material examined.

GEORGIA - Kakheti • 1♂; Dedoplistskaro mun., Chachuna Managed Reserve ; N41.230663°, E46.140872°; 648 m a.s.l.; semidesert, under rocks; leg. Seropian A.; 19 Jul. 2023; CaBOL-ID 1035879 .

Barcoding.

A single barcode was obtained from the specimen CaBOL-ID1035879 (BOLD:ABW8614). According to the BOLD Systems library, there is a single public barcode of the species mined from the GenBank, with 518 bp length, that failed to indicate a good match with our specimens. Either the specimen in the BOLD Systems belongs to another species, or the COI gene is not a proper tool to differentiate this particular species.

Remarks.

This species is distributed from the Eastern Mediterranean east to Turkmenistan ( Nentwig et al. 2023; WSC 2023). In the Caucasus, it is reported only from NE Caucasus ( Otto 2023). It is the first record of P. senilis in Georgia and the South Caucasus. The males of this species are easily distinguished from other local congeners by the shape of the retrolateral tibial apophysis.

Genus Zelotes Gistel, 1848

Figures

Figures 11 - 15. Nomisia ripariensis, male (11: left palpus, ventral view; 12: same, retrolateral view; 13: tibial apophysis, dorsal view). Poecilochroa senilis, male (14: left palpus, ventral view; 15: same, retrolateral view). Scale bars = 0.2 mm.