Marinarozelotes malkini (Platnick & Murphy, 1984)

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

Marinarozelotes malkini (Platnick & Murphy, 1984)

Marinarozelotes malkini Ponomarev & Shmatko, 2020: 135, figs 14-15, 19, 25-26, 43-44, 64-65 (♂♀).

Material examined.

GEORGIA - Tbilisi • 1♀; Dighomi vill.; N41.778°, E44.701°; 716 m a.s.l.; Paliurus spina-christi dominated shrubland, under rocks; leg. Seropian A., Krammer H.-J. & Karalashvili E.; 17 Jul. 2019; ZFMK-TIS 8008317 (BOLD:AAO4464) .

Bacroding. A single barcode was obtained from the specimen ZFMK-TIS 8008317 (BOLD:AAO4464) with the nearest neighbor in BOLD Systems M. malkini from Bulgaria (p -distance 0.15%) with an Early-Release status.

Remarks.

This species is distributed in the Balkans, Greece, the Caucasus (except for Armenia), the Asian part of Turkey, Iran, and Kazakhstan ( Nentwig et al. 2023; WSC 2023). The record from Azerbaijan ( Ponomarev and Shmatko 2020) is missing in Otto (2023). It is the second record for M. malkini in Georgia, the first record was from the Samachablo region ( Otto 2023).

Genus Poecilochroa Westring, 1874