Published February 25, 2010 | Version v1

Hersiliola Thorell 1870

  • 1. IBPN RAS, Magadan,
  • 2. Biologist ,, Turkey
  • 3. Ege University, Izmir, Turkey

Description

Key to the Hersiliola species

1. Male.......................................................................................................... 2

– Female....................................................................................................... 7

2. Embolus very long, with about 3.5 coils, embolic base at about 4 o’clock, tegular apophysis sharply pointed....................................... H. turcica sp. n

– Embolus shorter, embolic base at different position.................................... 3

3. Embolic base at about 12–12:30 o’clock.................................................... 4

– Embolic base at different position.............................................................. 5

4. Embolus makes less than one coil, tegular apophysis blunt, tip of cymbium is about one radius of the tegulum................................................ H. esyunini

– Embolus makes almost one coil, tegular apophysis not blunt, tip of cymbium is about one diameter of the tegulum..................................... H. sternbergsi

5. Tegular apophysis blunt..................................................... H. xinjiangensis

– Tegular apophysis not blunt....................................................................... 6

6. Embolic base at about 11 o’clock................................................. H. simoni

– Embolic base at about 5:30 o’clock...................................... H. macullulata

7. Epigyne without distinct windows and/or without distinct median plate..... 8

– Epigyne with distinct windows and plate................................................... 9

8. Median plate absent, receptacula round, insemination duct makes at least 7 coils.......................................................................................... H. lindbergi

– Median plate present, receptacula oval, insemination duct makes only 1 coil.............................................................................................................. H. foordi

9. Insemination duct with 5 or more coils.................................................... 10

– Insemination duct with less than 5 coils................................................... 11

10. Insemination duct with 7 coils........................................... H. turcica sp. n.

– Insemination duct with 5–6 coils......................................... H. macullulata

11. Septum thinner than median plate height part of the median plate rounded.................................................................................................. H. esyunini

– Septum wider than median plate height................................................... 12

12. Size> 5.5 mm.................................................................... H. xinjiangensis

– Size <5.5 mm.......................................................................................... 13

13. Median plate triangle shaped................................................... H. versicolor

– Median plate transversal........................................................................... 14

14. Receptaculum droplet shaped.................................................................. 15

– Receptaculum with conical terminal outgrowth........................... H. simoni

15. Receptaculum thinner than window...................................... H. sternbergsi

– Receptaculum wider than window.......................................... H. afghanica

Notes

Published as part of Marusik, Yuri, Kunt, Kadir & Yagmur, Ersen, 2010, A new species of Hersiliola Thorell, 1870 (Araneae, Hersiliidae) from Turkey, pp. 27-34 in ZooKeys 37 (37) on page 33, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.37.398, http://zenodo.org/record/576623

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Thorell
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Hersiliidae
Genus
Hersiliola
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Hersiliola Thorell, 1870 sec. Marusik, Kunt & Yagmur, 2010