Loureedia Miller, Griswold, Scharff, Řezáčc, Sz ű uts and Marhabaie, 2012

Szűts, Tamás, Szabó, Krisztián, Zamani, Alireza, Forman, Martin, Miller, Jeremy, Oger, Pierre, Fabregat, Magali, Kovács, Gábor & Gál, János, 2023, A Study in Scarlet: Integrative Taxonomy of the Spider Genus Loureedia (Araneae: Eresidae), Diversity (238) 15 (2), pp. 1-26 : 6

Loureedia Miller, Griswold, Scharff, Řezáčc, Sz ű uts and Marhabaie, 2012 .

Loureedia Miller et al., 2012: 81 [1] (original description).

Loureedia: Henriques et al. 2018: 5 [3]; Zamani and Marusik 2020: 239 [6].

Type species: Eresus annulipes Lucas, 1857 , Patria ignota (unknown site).

Diagnosis. The most diagnostic character of the genus is the bifid conductor of the male palp ( Figure 4 ). See also Miller et al. [1].

Composition. Six species: L. annulipes , L. colleni , L. jerbae , L. lucasi , L. maroccana , and L. phoenixi .

Distribution. Spain, North Africa, and the Middle East (east to Iran) (see Figure 5 ).

Figures

Figure 4. Conductors of six species of Loureedia (ventral view). (A) L. phoenixi; (B) L. jerbae; (C) L. annulipes; (D) L. lucasi; (E) L. maroccana; (F) L. colleni. A, D, and F are based on Zamani and Marusik [6]. Line drawings by Mahla Pourcheraghi.

Figure 5. Distribution records of species of Loureedia. Color codes: yellow—L. colleni, blue—L. maroccana, white—L. lucasi, green—L. jerbae, khaki—L. annulipes (SAJ264 not shown), magenta—L. phoenixi, black dot—unidentified Loureedia specimen from Jordan [7].