Hersiliola lindbergi, Marusik & Fet, 2009

Marusik, Yuri & Fet, Victor, 2009, A survey of East Palaearctic Hersiliola Thorell, 1870 (Araneae, Hersiliidae), with a description of three new genera, ZooKeys 16 (16), pp. 75-114 : 85

Hersiliola lindbergi sp. n.

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Figs 1 .3, 7 .5-6, 8 .3 Type material. Holotype ♀ with label “ 1♀ Paratyp , SMF 12996, No. 15, Afghanistan ”, in SMF.

Etymology. The species name is a patronym honoring its collector, Dr. Knut Lindberg (1892-1962) of Lund, Sweden, who conducted an important expedition to Afghanistan between 1957 and 1960.

Note. Roewer (1960) in his description of H. afghanica indicated only one adult specimen, the holotype female. All paratypes were juveniles. Labels of the holotype of H. afghanica (GNM) and the SMF 12996 “ paratype ” were written by the same hand, probably by Roewer.

Description. Male unknown. Female: Total length 3.6. Carapace 1.5 long, 1.7 wide, femur I 2.5 long, femur I/carapace length ratio 1.66. General colouration light yellowbrown. Carapace without pattern but with dark margins. Abdomen with a wide heart spot and one transverse stripe; sides with brown bands. Legs without distinct annulations. Chelicerae and maxillae without strong setae. Coxae IV separated by less than one diameter.

Epigyne as in Figs 7.5-6, 8.3, with septum as wide as epigyne openings; median plate not separated from the epigynal plate; translucent spermathecae small and round, close to each other, their diameter approximately equals width of epigyne openings, windows absent; spermathecae separated from the opening by three diameters; insemination ducts long, making six coils around fertilization duct; the upper loop welldeveloped; accessory glands small, digitiform.

Diagnosis. H. lindbergi sp. n. clearly differs from other species by the very long insemination ducts making six coils and an apical loop. It can be also distinguished by small round spermathecae, the shape of the septum and the epigyne openings.

Comments. There is a certain possibility that H. lindbergi sp. n. belongs to another genus. Unlike in H. maculullata , H. afganica , H. simoni , H. sternbergsi sp. n., H. versicolor , and Duninia baehrae sp. n., the median plate in this species is not separated from the epigynal plates and has no accessory sclerites or windows. The position of H. lindbergi sp. n. cannot be confirmed until a male is found.

Distribution. Afghanistan, without a precise locality.

Figures

Figure 1. Habitus of females of Hersiliola sternbergsi sp. n. (1), H. esyunini sp. n. (2), H. lindbergi sp. n. (3) and H. afghanica (4).

Map 1. Distribution of Hersiliidae in Central Asia. ' Hersiliola afghanica; × Hersiliola esyunini; • Hersiliola foordi; · Hersiliola lindbergi; • Hersiliola sternbergsi; + Hersiliola xinjiangensis; ′ Duninia baehrae; ‵ Duninia rheimsae;. Deltshevia danovi; * Deltshevia gromovi; - Ovtsharenkoia pallida; -? identity uncertain

Figure 7. Epigynes of Hersiliola versicolor (1), Hersiliola sp. (2), H. lindbergi sp. n. (3, 6), H. afghanica (4-5), H. sternbergsi sp. n. (7-9), H. esyunini sp. n. (10-12), and H. foordi sp. n. (13-14). 1-8, 10-11, 13-14 ventral 9, 12 dorsal. Scale = 0.5 mm.

Figure 8. Epigynes, ventral view, of Hersiliola afghanica (1), H. sternbergsi sp. n. (2), H. lindbergi sp. n. (3), H. esyunini sp. n. (4), H. foordi sp. n (5), Duninia baehrae sp. n. (6), and D. rheimsae sp. n. (7).