Zelotes hazarmerdensis Zamani & Marusik, 2024

Zamani, Alireza, Khudhur, Farhad A. & Marusik, Yuri M., 2024, New data on spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iraqi Kurdistan, with new species and records, Zootaxa 5492 (2), pp. 260-278 : 269

Zelotes hazarmerdensis Zamani & Marusik , sp. n.

Figs 1D , 6B–C

Type material. Holotype ♀ ( ZMUT), IRAQ: Sulaymaniyah Governorate: Bakrajo, Hazar Merd , Dekon Vill., 35°29'52.4"N 45°18'56.2"E, 28.03.2022 (F.A. Khudhur).

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to Hazar Merd ancient archeological cave within Baranan mountain chain in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, near which the type locality of this species is situated.

Diagnosis. The new species is similar to Z. helicoides Chatzaki, 2010 from Greece by having large anterior hoods, but can be distinguished by the relatively larger receptacles and converging lateral margins of the epigynal fovea (vs. subparallel), as well as by the receptacle span being wider than the anterior pockets (vs. subequal) (cf. Fig. 6B–C and Chatzaki 2010: figs 22, 23).

Description. Female. Habitus as in Fig. 1D . Total length 5.70. Carapace 2.44 long, 1.95 wide. Eye sizes: AME: 0.08, ALE: 0.12, PME: 0.09, PLE: 0.08. Carapace, chelicerae, maxillae, labium and sternum black. Legs proximally black and distally light brown, without annulations. Abdomen dark gray, without any pattern. Spinnerets slightly darker than abdomen, uniform in color. Measurements of legs: I: Fe: 1.63, Pa: 1.04 (rest of segments missing), II: 4.65 (1.37, 0.86, 0.95, 0.80, 0.67), III: 4.44 (1.26, 0.76, 0.79, 0.99, 0.64), IV: 6.09 (1.73, 0.94, 1.22, 1.47, 0.73).

Epigyne as in Fig. 6B–C ; epigynal plate ca. 1.3 times longer than wide; fovea (Fo) ovate, ca. 1.4 times longer than wide; anterior hoods (Ah) broad, subequal to half width of fovea, spaced by less than their width; receptacles (Re) large, globular, their diameters equal to width of fovea, spaced by less than one radius; accessorial glands (Ag) globular.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan ( Fig. 10 ).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Habitus (A–F, H, I) and cephalothorax (G) of Tegenaria sorani sp. n. (A), Gibbaranea bituberculata (B), Enoplognatha gemina (C), Zelotes hazarmerdensis sp. n. (D), Haplodrassus qashqai (E), Cheiracanthium montanum (F, G), Rhysodromus rikhteri (H) and Xysticus acerbus (I), dorsal (A–F, H, I) and frontal (G). A–C, F–G, I males; D, E, H females.

FIGURE 6. Female copulatory organs of Haplodrassus qashqai (A), Zelotes hazarmerdensis sp. n. (B, C) and Dysdera goyzha sp. n. (D). A intact, ventral; B macerated, ventral; C, D macerated, dorsal. Abbreviations: Ah—anterior hood, Ag—accessorial gland, Da—dorsal arch, Fo—fovea, Re—receptacle, Tb—transversal bar. Scale bars: 0.2 mm.

FIGURE 10. Collection localities of the new species described in this paper in Iraqi Kurdistan: Tegenaria sorani sp. n. (circle), Dysdera goyzha sp. n. (triangle), Dysdera kurdistanica sp. n. and Zelotes hazarmerdensis sp. n. (square), and Palpimanus garmiyanus sp. n. (hexagon).