A review of Agelenini (Araneae: Agelenidae: Ageleninae) of Iran and Tajikistan, with descriptions of four new genera
Author
Zamani, Alireza
Author
Marusik, Yuri M.
text
Arachnology
2020
2020-04-30
18
4
368
386
http://dx.doi.org/10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.368
journal article
10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.368
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Persilena sengleti
sp. n.
(
Figs. 1C
,
14
I–L, 15B)
Type material
:
Holotype
♀
and
paratype
1♀
1juv.
(
MHNG
),
IRAN
:
Ilam Province
:
Dizgaran
,
33°44′N
46°59′E
,
16 May 1974
(
A. Senglet
).
Etymology
: This species is named after the late Antoine Senglet, an eminent arachnologist, who collected an extensive number of Iranian spiders.
Diagnosis
: As for the genus.
Description of female
: Habitus as in
Fig. 1C
. Total length 10.04. Carapace 3.76 long, 2.30 wide. Eye sizes and PME interdistance: AME: 0.18, ALE: 0.20, PME: 0.20, PLE: 0.21, PME–PME: 0.10. Chelicera with 2 prolateral and 3 retrolateral teeth. Carapace, sternum, labium, chelicera, and maxilla light brown. Carapace with dark margins, two wide, light submarginal bands, two wide, brown lateral bands, and a wide, light median band. Legs the same colour as the carapace and lacking distinct annulations. Abdomen light gray with scattered darker patches dorsally and with two longitudinal dark gray bands ventrally. Spinnerets uniformly light yellowish. Leg I measurements: 11.47 (2.94, 1.29, 2.52, 2.64, 2.08).
Epigyne as in
Figs. 14
I–L, plate slightly extends over epigastric furrow, suboval, rebordered anteriorly; fovea absent, copulatory openings slit-like, indistinct; endogyne almost as long as wide and as deep as wide, with the copulatory ducts extended dorsally.
Male
: Unknown.
Distribution
: Known only from the
type
locality in
Ilam Province
, western
Iran
(
Fig. 15B
).