Published July 29, 2009 | Version v1
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Hersiliola Thorell 1870

  • 1. IBPN RAS, Magadan,
  • 2. Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, USA

Description

Hersiliola sp.

Fig. 7.2 H. simoni: Benoit 1974: 997, f. 3, 6 (♀) (?)

Material examined. A slide of the epigyne (SMF, from the H. Wiehle collection) labeled as “ H. macullulata from Palestine.

Comments. Unlike other species from the Middle East (Israel), this specimen has only one coil of the insemination duct, and it can be expected that its male should have a correspondingly shorter embolus. It could belong to H. lucasi (O.P.- Cambridge, 1876), which was described from Egypt and is currently synonymous with H. simoni. Conformation of the epigyne is similar to those illustrated by Benoit (1974) from Tunisia and identified as H. simoni. Benoit (1974) compared his specimen with those from Egypt.

Notes

Published as part of Marusik, Yuri & Fet, Victor, 2009, A survey of East Palaearctic Hersiliola Thorell, 1870 (Araneae, Hersiliidae), with a description of three new genera, pp. 75-114 in ZooKeys 16 (16) on page 84, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.16.229, http://zenodo.org/record/576478

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Additional details

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 & Fet, 2009

References

  • Benoit PLG (1974) Araignees interessantes du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve. Revue suisse de Zoologie 81: 993 - 998.
  • Cambridge OP- (1876) Catalogue of a collection of spiders made in Egypt, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society London 1876: 541 - 630.