Pterotricha dalmasi Fage, 1929

Zamani, Alireza, 2018, The spider genus Pterotricha Kulczynski, 1903 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in the United Arab Emirates, Evolutionary Systematics 2 (2), pp. 151-161 : 151

Pterotricha dalmasi Fage, 1929 Figs 1 f–g, 2e, 3e, 4 e–f

Pterotricha dalmasi : Levy 1995: 948, f. 71-76 (♂♀); El-Hennawy 2014: 26, f. 1-6 (♂♀); Siyamet al. 2017: 320, f. 7-9 (♂).

Pterotricha cf. dalmasi : Zamani et al. 2018: 19, f. 1 a–f (♀).

Material examined.

1♀ (AMNH_IZC 00326740), Public Hunting Triangle, 24°40'N, 55°3'E, 28 Jan 1994; 1♂1♀ (AMNH_IZC 00326728), Madinat Zayed, Feb 1994; 1♂ (AMNH_IZC 00326760), Baynunah, 24°0'N, 52°37'E, 11 Jan 1994, mobile sand.

Distribution.

This species has been previously recorded from Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and, provisionally, Iran. Thus, the current record from UAE is the easternmost in the whole known range of the species ( Zamani et al. 2018).

Comments.

The identification of the females are to be considered as provisional: their epigynes are similar to that of Pterotricha cf. dalmasi reported from southern Iran by Zamani et al. (2018) and that illustrated by Levy (1995: fig. 75) from Israel; it is possible that they belong to the currently undescribed female of Pterotricha kovblyuki Zamani & Marusik, 2018, and the species could potentially have a larger range than what is currently known for it.