Hersiliola, Thorell, 1870

Marusik, Yuri, Kunt, Kadir & Yagmur, Ersen, 2010, A new species of Hersiliola Thorell, 1870 (Araneae, Hersiliidae) from Turkey, ZooKeys 37 (37), pp. 27-34 : 33

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