Mesiotelus patricki Zamani & Marusik, 2021

Zamani, Alireza, Fomichev, Alexander A., Naumova, Maria, Kaya, Rahşen S. & Marusik, Yuri M., 2024, New taxonomic and faunistic data on Liocranidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of West Palaearctic), with nine new species of Mesiotelus Simon, 1897, Zootaxa 5519 (2), pp. 190-214 : 202-203

Mesiotelus patricki Zamani & Marusik, 2021

Figs 11 , 58–60

Mesiotelus scopensis : Zamani et al. 2020: 584 (in part).

Mesiotelus patricki Zamani & Marusik 2021a: 110 , figs 4E–F, 11A–E, 12A–C (♂); Zamani & Marusik 2021b: 560 , fig. 4H (♂).

Material. IRAN: Golestan Prov.: 1♀ ( MHNG), Tang-e Rah , 37°23'N, 55°50'E, 13.VII.1974 (leg. A. Senglet) .

Diagnosis. The epigyne of this species is somewhat similar to that of M. kulczynskii ( Figs 52–54 ), but can be separated from it by the relatively wider anterior hood with distinct lateral margins (vs. lacking), and subparallel posterior lateral margins (vs. diverging), and receptacles spaced by their length (vs. less). For male, see Zamani & Marusik (2021).

Description. Female. Habitus as in Fig. 11 . Total length 5.50. Carapace 2.40 long, 2.00 wide. Eye sizes: AME: 0.13, ALE: 0.15, PME: 0.12, PLE: 0.14. Carapace, chelicerae, maxillae, labium and sternum light yellowish-brown. Legs slightly lighter than carapace, without annulations. Abdomen beige, lighter ventrally, without patterns. Spinnerets uniformly light yellowish-brown. Ventral paired tibial spines: I, II: 2p, III, IV: 3p. Measurements of legs: I: 8.31 (2.31, 1.23, 2.11, 1.66, 1.00), II: 7.32 (2.00, 1.08, 1.80, 1.50, 0.94), III: 6.91 (1.87, 0.93, 1.51, 1.75, 0.85), IV: 9.80 (2.56, 1.12, 2.37, 2.72, 1.03).

Epigyne as in Figs 58–60 ; epigynal plate 1.4 times longer than wide; fovea ca. 2. time longer than wide; anterior hood (Ah) with lateral margins (Hl) longer that hood’s width, hood ca. 2 times thinner than fovea; fovea lacking distinct transversal wrinkles, posterior part of fovea V-shaped, anterior part of lateral margins subparallel; receptacles oval, ca. 1.6 times longer than wide, inclined, spaced by about their length; copulatory ducts almost of receptacle’s length, spaced by 1.5 times their width.

Male. See Zamani & Marusik (2021).

Comment. Although the female described here was not collected with a male, we are quite certain of our identification as the locality reported here is only approximately 9 km of aerial distance from the type locality.

Distribution. Known only from Golestan Province, northern Iran ( Fig. 75 ).

Figures

FIGURE 75. Collection localities of the studied liocranid species. 1—Agroeca angirasu; 2—A. cuprea; 3—A. inopina; 4—A. proxima; 5—Mesiotelus alanyensis sp. nov. (in part, specimens from Antalya); 6—M. bosmansi sp. nov.; 7—M. confusus sp. nov.; 8—M. cyprius; 9—M. damavandicus sp. nov.; 10—M. scopensis; 11—M. kravetsi sp. nov.; 12—M. mediterraneus sp. nov. and M. alanyensis sp. nov. (in part, specimens from Mersin); 13—M. patricki; 14—M. sistanus sp. nov.; 15—M. tadzhikus sp. nov.; 16—M. turanicus sp. nov.; 17—M. kulczynskii; 18—Scotina celans; 19—Sestakovaia annulipes. Some symbols could refer to more than one closely situated locality.

FIGURES 7–12. Dorsal habitus of Mesiotelus cyprius (7), M. damavandicus sp. nov. (8), M. kravetsi sp. nov. (9), M. mediterraneus sp. nov. (10), M. patricki (11) and M. sistanus sp. nov. (12). 7–8, 10–12—female; 9—male. Scale bars: 2 mm.

FIGURES 52–60. Epigyne (52–53, 55–60) and receptacles (54) of Mesiotelus kulczynskii (52–54), M. mediterraneus sp. nov. (55–57) and M. patricki (58–60). 55, 58—intact, ventral; 52, 56, 59—macerated, ventral; 53–54, 57, 60—macerated, dorsal. Scale bars: 0.1 mm. Abbreviations: Ah—anterior hood, Hl—lateral margin of anterior hood.