Identity and identification of Trogulus banaticus (Opiliones: Trogulidae) – a neglected species in the Northern Balkans

Abstract

Trogulus banaticus Avram, 1971 is characterised and recorded as new for Slovenia. This species was previously mistaken for T. coriziformis C. L. Koch, 1839 and T. graecus Dahl, 1903 which were later rejected from the Slovenian fauna. T. banaticus is compared with the similar, and partly sympatric, T. tingiformis C. L. Koch, 1847 with which it has often been confused. A table of distinguishing characters for both species is provided, and the ecology of T. banaticus and its general distribution are discussed.

Keywords

• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• ecology
• Macedonia
• Montenegro
• Romania
• Serbia
• Slovenia
• taxonomy
• Trogulus tingiformis