Agroeca maculata L. Koch, 1879

Seropian, Armen, Bulbulashvili, Natalia, Krammer, Hans-Joachim, Thormann, Jana, Hein, Nils, Karalashvili, Elisabeth, Kachlishvili, Nino & Datunashvili, Anastasia, 2024, Picking pearls from the Silk Road: Insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus Barcode of Life (CaBOL) project. Part III, Caucasiana 3, pp. 89-118 : 89

* Agroeca maculata L. Koch, 1879

Figs 20-21

Agroeca maculata Danilov, 1999: 313, figs 1D-E (♀).

Material examined.

GEORGIA - Mtskheta-Mtianeti • 1♀; N of Shevardeni, Mna Valley ; N42.58°, E44.47°; 2012 m a.s.l.; leg. Krammer H.-J ..; 7 Jul. 2019; ZFMK-TIS 8008097 (BOLD:AFJ0323) .

Barcoding.

A single barcode was obtained from the specimen ZFMK-TIS 8008097 (BOLD:AFJ0323) with the nearest neighbor in BOLD Systems. There are currently no barcodes for A. maculata in BOLD Systems, we are submitting the first one.

Remarks.

Species with a Western-Palaearctic distribution range occur from Ukraine east to the Irkutsk Oblast of Russia ( Nentwig et al. 2023; WSC 2023). In the Caucasus, it is known only from Dagestan ( Otto 2023). It is the first record of A. maculata in Georgia. Females of the species are readily distinguished from the females of other Palaearctic congeners by the shape of epigyne and endogyne.

Genus Apostenus Westring, 1851

Figures

Figures 20 - 21. Agroeca maculata, female (20: epigyne, ventral view, in situ; 21: endogyne, dorsal view). Scale bars = 0.2 mm.