Zora nemoralis (Blackwall, 1861)

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

Zora nemoralis (Blackwall, 1861)

Material examined.

GEORGIA - Mtskheta-Mtianeti • 1♀; Akhmeta mun., NW of Vedzebi Vill.; N42.064°, E45.064°; 1036 m a.s.l.; leg. Karalashvili E. & Krammer H.-J.; 08 July 2019; ZFMK-TIS 8008338 (BOLD:AAG5679) .

Barcoding.

A single barcode was obtained from the specimen ZFMK-TIS 8008338 (BOLD:AAG5679) with the nearest neighbor in BOLD Systems Z. nemoralis from Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Finland (BOLD:AAG5679, p -distance 1.54%).

Remarks.

This species has a transpalaearctic range ( Nentwig et al. 2023; WSC 2023). It is a common species in the Caucasus, recorded in Azerbaijan, the North Caucasus, and Georgia (Samachablo region) ( Otto 2023). Herein, Z. nemoralis is reported from the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region for the first time.

Family Nesticidae Simon, 1894

Genus Aituaria Esyunin & Efimik, 1998