ZooKeys (Feb 2023)

A new genus of Textricini Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Anatolia

  • Rahşen S. Kaya,
  • Alireza Zamani,
  • Ersen Aydın Yağmur,
  • Yuri M. Marusik

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1151.100430
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1151
pp. 31 – 45

Abstract

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Türkiye is known to have the highest diversity of the spider family Agelenidae in the Western Palaearctic and the highest diversity of the subfamily Ageleninae globally. The new agelenid genus Anatextrix gen. nov. (Ageleninae, Textricini) and its type species, A. spectabilis sp. nov. (♂♀; Mersin and Adana provinces, southern Türkiye), are described. A key to all four genera of Textricini is provided.