Published December 31, 2021 | Version v1
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Agroeca cuprea Menge 1873

  • 1. Scientific Centre of Zoology and Hydroecology, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, P. Sevak Str. 7, Yerevan 0014, Armenia. E-mail: noushigz @ hotmail. com
  • 2. Department of Entomology, Biological Faculty, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119234, Russia. E-mail: propistsovae @ yandex. ru
  • 3. Institute for Biological Problems of the North RAS, 18 Portovaya Str., Magadan, Russia. E-mail: yurmar @ mail. ru

Description

Agroeca cuprea Menge, 1873

Material examined: Ararat Province: 2♀, env. of Urtsadzor, 39°54'00"N 44°50'53"E, 1200–1300 m, on clay slope, 6.v.2021; 1♀, env. of Urtsadzor, 39°55'26"N 44°48'53"E, 1040 m, clay canyons, 6.v.2021. Vayots Dzor Province: 1♀, Shatin, Scenic place, 39°50'49"N 45°19'E, 9.v.2021. Kotayk Province: 1♀, env. of Solak, 40°28'24"N 44°42'57"E, 14.v.2021.

Comments: Females of this species have characteristic shape of epigyne and cannot be confused with the other two congeners occurring in the region; previously reported from the Northern Caucasus and Nakhchivan (Otto 2020).

Notes

Published as part of Zarikian, Noushig A., Propistsova, Evgenia A. & Marusik, Yuri M., 2021, On spider families (Arachnida: Araneae) new to Armenia, pp. 103-117 in Israel Journal of Entomology 51 (1) on pages 108-109, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6466083

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2021-05-06 , 2021-05-09 , 2021-05-14
Verbatim event date
2021-05-06 , 2021-05-09 , 2021-05-14
Scientific name authorship
Menge
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Liocranidae
Genus
Agroeca
Species
cuprea
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Agroeca cuprea Menge, 1873 sec. Zarikian, Propistsova & Marusik, 2021

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