Aituaria eriashvilii (Marusik, 1987)

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

Aituaria eriashvilii (Marusik, 1987)

Carpatonesticus eriashvilii Marusik, 1987: 462, fig. 3 (♀).

Carpathonesticus eriashvilii Marusik et al., 2017: 302, figs 1-6, 8-17, 23-33, 38-40 (♂♀).

Material examined.

GEORGIA - Tbilisi • 1♂; W of Kojori ; N41.67°, E44.669°; 1308 m a.s.l.; mixed forest, leg. Karalashvili E. & Krammer H.-J.; 15 Jul. 2019; ZFMK-TIS 8008275 (BOLD:AFJ0298) .

Barcoding.

A single barcode was obtained from the specimen ZFMK-TIS 8008275 (BOLD:AFJ0298). There are currently no barcodes for A. eriashvilii in BOLD Systems, we are submitting the first one.

Remarks.

The terra typica and the sole record of this troglophile species in the Caucasus is Lagodekhi ( Marusik (1987) as Carpatonesticus eriashvilii (WSC 2023). Apart from Georgia, it was also recorded in two synantropic localities (cellars) in West and East Ukraine ( Nentwig et al. 2023). It is the first record of A. eriashvilii in Tbilisi and the second within the country.

Family Oxyopidae Thorell, 1869

Genus Oxyopes Latreille, 1804