Arabelia Bosselaers, 2009 and Arabelia pheidoleicomes Bosselaers, 2009 (Araneae: Liocranidae) are new records for the Turkish Spider Fauna
Author
Seyyar
Author
Oba
Author
Demir
Author
Türkeş
text
Serket
2016
15
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.807180
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807180
Arabelia pheidoleicomes
Bosselaers, 2009
(
Fig. 2
)
Material examined:
2♀♀
,
Aksaray Province
,
Eskil District
, surrounding of Salt Lake, under debris cluster, (
38°25'15.29"N
,
33°26'47.9"E
) in
May
.
1♀
,
Afyon Province
,
Bolvadin District
,
Kemerkaya
, under stone, (
38°53'18"N
31°04'46"E
) in
May
. All specimens were deposited in Niğde University Arachnology Museum
.
Identification and description:
Bosselaers (2009)
and
Wunderlich (2012)
.
World distribution.
Greece (
World Spider Catalog, 2016
) and Turkey (this study).
Remarks.
Two adult females are found in May from surrounding of Salt Lake in Central Anatolia. Both specimens were collected under the debris cluster in steppe ecosystems. Another female was collected under stone from step area in Bolvadin.
Bosselaers (2009)
said that this species is clearly myrmecophylic. Although collecting sites of this species were suitable places for ants, we did not observe this symbiosis.