Review of the spider genus Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 (Aranei: Agelenidae) of the Russian Caucasus and Ciscaucasia. II. A new species and an interesting record

Abstract

A new spider species from the family Agelenidae Tegenaria terskovi Ponomarev, sp. n. is described from the south part of Russia (Stavropol Region). It is close to T. podoprygorai (Kovblyuk, 2006) and T. lehtineni (Guseinov, Marusik et Koponen, 2005), from which it differs in the shape of the retrolateral tibial apophysis, the conductor, the position of the embolic base. The holotype is deposited in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia). The first record of Tegenaria hasperi Chyzer, 1897 from Dagestan is also provided; the species is illustrated.

Keywords

• araneae
• spiders
• fauna
• taxonomy
• south of russia