Oxyopes badhyzicus Mikhailov & Fet, 1986

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

** Oxyopes badhyzicus Mikhailov & Fet, 1986

Figs 27-30

Oxyopes badhyzicus Levy, 1999: 46, figs 18A-C, 19A-B (♂♀).

Material examined.

GEORGIA - Kakheti • 1♀; Dedoplistskaro mun., Chachuna Managed Reserve ; N41.231156°, E46.147153°; 648 m a.s.l.; semidesert, vegetation; leg. Seropian A.; 17 Jul. 2023; CaBOL-ID 1035886 (Figs 27-28 ) • 1♀; N41.249974°, E45.948397°; 648 m a.s.l.; semidesert vegetation; leg. Seropian A.; 16 Jul. 2023; CaBOL-ID 1035885 • 1♀; N41.214409°, E6.01487°; 648 m a.s.l.; semidesert vegetation; leg. Seropian A.; 16 Jul. 2023; CaBOL-ID 1035880 • 1♀; N41.223268°, E46.322996°; 648 m a.s.l.; semidesert vegetation; leg. Chitadze B.; 18 Jul. 2023; CaBOL-ID 1035908 • 1♀; N41.223701°, E46.325385°; 648 m a.s.l.; semidesert vegetation; leg. Chitadze B.; 18 Jul. 2023; CaBOL-ID 1035909 • 1♀; N41.223268°, E46.322996°; 648 m a.s.l.; osemidesert vegetation; leg. Chitadze B.; 18 Jul. 2023; CaBOL-ID 1035908 • 1♂; N41.2252°, E46.3236°; 648 m a.s.l.; semidesert vegetation; leg. Chitadze B.; 18 Jul. 2023; CaBOL-ID 1035916.

Barcoding.

Five identical barcodes were obtained from the specimens: CaBOL-IDs 1035885, 1035886, 1035908, 1035909, and 1035916 (BOLD:AFN3105). There are currently no barcodes for O. badhyzicus in BOLD Systems; we are submitting the first ones.

Remarks.

This species was described from Eastern Turkmenistan and is currently known to occur from Israel to Turkmenistan (WSC 2023). It is the first record of O. badhyzicus in the Caucasus. Oxyopes badhyzicus is closest to the co-occurring O. globifer Simon, 1876, from which males and females can be easily distinguished not only by the structure of copulatory organs but also by a rather delicate elongated abdomen and the pattern of carapace (broad dark margins and a light median longitudinal band in O. globifer ; dark margins and two dark longitudinal bands extending from chelicerae to the eye field and the base of the carapace in O. badhyzicus ). For species diagnosis, see Levy (1999).

Family Philodromidae Thorell, 1869

Genus Philodromus Walckenaer, 1826

Figures

Figures 27 - 30. Oxyopes badhyzicus (27: female, epigyne, ventral view, in situ; 28: endogyne, dorsal view; 29: male, left palpus, ventral view; 30: same, retrolateral view). Scale bars = 0.2 mm.