Zaitunia

Sergei Zonstein & Yuri M. Marusik, 2016, A revision of the spider genus Zaitunia (Araneae, Filistatidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 214, pp. 1-97 : 14

Key to species of the Zaitunia schmitzi- group

(Male of Z. halepensis sp. nov. is unknown.)

1. Males (palpal structures as shown in Fig. 7 A–D) …………………… Z. schmitzi ( Kulczyński, 1911)

– Females ……………………………………………………………………………………………2

2. Prosoma and legs brown to dark brown; median receptacles minute and globulate, smaller than lateral pair ( Fig. 7 E–K). Egypt (Sinai) and Israel ……………………… Z. schmitzi ( Kulczyński, 1911)

– Prosoma and legs deep brownish yellow; median receptacles large and clublike, much longer than small lateral pair ( Fig. 5 C–D). Syria …………………………………………… Z. halepensis sp. nov.

Figures

Fig. 5. Zaitunia halepensis sp. nov., holotype, ♀. A – B. Habitus, lateral and dorsal. C – D. Endogyne.

Fig. 7. Copulatory organs of Zaitunia schmitzi (Kulczyński, 1911), ♂ (A – D) and ♀ (E – K) from Jerusalem area. — A – B. Palp, retrolateral and prolateral. C – D. Same, ventro-prolateral and ventroretrolateral. E, G, K. Endogyne, anterior. F. Same, posterior. H, J. Receptacles, dorsal and anterior. I. Endogyne, dorsal.