A survey of Brignoliolus Ovchinnikov, 1999 stat. rev. (Araneae, Agelenidae) with the description of a new species from Israel
Author
Zonstein, Sergei
0000-0002-4515-0630
The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Klausner 12, 69978 Tel-Aviv, Israel.
znn@tauex.tau.ac.il
Author
Marusik, Yuri M.
0000-0002-4499-5148
Institute for Biological Problems of the North, Portovaya Str. 18, Magadan 685000, Russia. & Altai State University, Lenina Pr., 61, Barnaul, RF- 656049, Russia.
yurmar@mail.ru
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-11-26
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5541.2.6
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5541.2.6
1175-5326
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Genus
Brignoliolus
Ovchinnikov, 1999
stat. rev.
Brignoliolus
Ovchinnikov, 1999: 74
(as a subgenus of
Coelotes
Blackwall, 1841
).
Type
species.
Coelotes turkestanicus
Ovchinnikov, 1999
by original designation.
Diagnosis.
Predominantly medium-sized (body length mostly
5–10 mm
) pale-colored coelotine spiders with an elongate apical segment of the posterior lateral spinnerets.
Brignoliolus
differs from
Coelotes
by a lighter overall colouration and a longer and thinner apical segment of the posterior lateral spinnerets that 3–5 times as long as wide, and 1.15–1.6 times longer than preceding segment (
vs
. respectively 2–2.5 times, and nearly equal in length to the latter in
Coelotes
;
Figs 12–14
,
28, 30
;
Fomichev 2021
, fig. 1C
cf
.
Fig. 8
; Murphy & Roberts 2015, p. 282, pl. 85), as well as by the distinctive shape of the epigyne with long to very long teeth located anteriorly (
vs
. laterally) from the anterior margin of the fovea, and with trapezoidal or sandglass fovea (
vs
. rectangular) (please refre to figures see relatively
Figs 6
and
9, 10
,
25
,
29
). Additionally, the species of
Coelotes
which are related to the generotype,
C
.
atropos
(Walckenaer, 1830)
possess the well-defined colulus, while in
Brignoliolus
spp.
the colulus is poorly discernible (
Fig. 8
cf
.
Figs 14
,
30
).
Note
. The principal structure of the male palp in
Brignoliolus
is indistinguishable from that in
Coelotes
(
Figs 2–4
cf
.
Figs 16–23
).
Description.
See
Ovchinnikov (1999)
.
Composition.
Brignoliolus arganoi
(
Brignoli, 1978
)
comb. nov.
;
B
.
caudatus
(de
Blauwe, 1973
)
comb. nov.
;
B
.
charitonovi
(
Spassky, 1939
)
comb. nov.
;
B
.
coenobita
(
Brignoli, 1978
)
comb. nov.
;
B
.
juglandicola
(
Ovchinnikov, 1984
)
comb. nov.
;
B
.
nenilini
(
Ovchinnikov, 1999
)
comb. nov.
;
B
.
ovchinnikovi
sp. nov.
;
B
.
turkestanicus
(
Ovchinnikov, 1999
)
comb. nov.
;
B
.
vignai
(
Brignoli, 1978
)
comb. nov.
Distribution.
From northwestern
Anatolia
(
Turkey
) to the Tarbagatai Mountains (
Kazakhstan
), and from the
Orenburg
steppes (
Russia
) in the north to the Upper Galilee (
Israel
) in the south (
Ovchinnikov 1999
;
Mikhailov 2022
;
Nentwig
et al
. 2024
).
Distribution of some species and their
type
localities are incorrectly shown in
Wang & Zhu (2009)
and therefore we are providing a map showing all distributional records of all species of the genus.