Marusik Lin & Li, 2023

Lin, Yejie, Li, Shuqiang & Pham, Dinh-Sac, 2023, Taxonomic notes on some spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from China and Vietnam, Zoological Systematics 48 (1), pp. 1-99 : 8

Marusik Lin & Li , gen. nov.

Type species: Marusik yurii Lin & Li , sp. nov. from Vietnam .

Etymology. The genus is named after Yuri M. Marusik , one of the most active leading arachnologists. The gender is masculine.

Diagnosis. Males of the new genus can be distinguished from all other Haplodrassus- group genera by having six eyes, the embolus half enclosed by the conductor and the wide tegular apophysis.

Description. Small-sized. Body length 2.45–3.12. Carapace oval, chelicera well developed, with three promarginal and four retromarginal teeth, promargin covered with long setae. Opisthosoma oval, white, with yellow-brown setae, lacking pattern and dorsal scutum. Spinnerets short.

Male palp lacking patellar apophysis. Retrolateral tibial apophysis simple, almost as long as wide. Tegular apophysis lamellate, membranous. Conductor with a dorsal and ventral part, dorsal part smaller than ventral. Embolus curved, pointed at tip.

Distribution. Vietnam.

Species included. Marusik yurii Lin & Li , sp. nov.