Description of Titanoeca deltshevi sp. n. from Bulgaria with faunistic notes on related species in the Balkans (Araneae, Titanoecidae) Author Naumova, Maria text Zootaxa 2019 2019-10-23 4688 3 420 430 journal article 25159 10.11646/zootaxa.4688.3.8 91a51391-41b1-4184-bb62-6cd3bbbfdd74 1175-5326 3516843 0DA19788-DD99-427D-89DD-B06A1A9AEF64 Titanoeca turkmenia Wunderlich, 1995 Fig. 10 . Material examined: BULGARIA : 1 ♂ ( Fig. 10 ), Ropotamo Reserve , Strandzha Mts , South Black Sea coast ( Fig. 6 : 30), 18– 20.06.2012 , lgt S. Lazarov ; 1 ♂ Emine , Black Sea coast ( Fig. 6 : 31), 06.2011, pf. tr., lgt T. Teofilova ; AL- BANIA : 8 ♂ , Prespa lake , 1 km SW of the border pass ( N40.91026 ˚ E20.89585 ˚, 958 m a.s.l. ), 24.05– 25.06.2013 , pf.tr., lgt S. Hristovski and G. Hristov (in Naumova et al. 2016 as T. veteranica , misidentification) . Comparative material examined: T. tristis , 1 ♂ , Central Stara Planina Mts : Kamenitsa village , N42.5955° , E23.9352° , 646 m a.s.l. , 14.06.2016 , lgt M. Naumova , T. veteranica , 1 ♂ , Ihtiman plain, N 42.4127 ˚, E 23.7917 ˚, 637 m a.s.l. , 09.08.2001 , lgt P. Kalushkov ( Kalushkov et al. 2008 ) . Distribution in Bulgaria : Strandzha Mts, South Black Sea coast: Ropotamo Reserve (present paper), Black Sea coast: Cape Emine (present paper). Global distribution: Iran, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan , Russia . In the Balkans this species was reported only from Greece ( 7 ♂ , Kavala, Schroder et al . 2011 ). The report from Albania extends the species range westward and together with the Bulgarian records shows that the species has a wider distribution in the Balkans.