Berlandina ovtsharenkoi sp. n.

Figs 38 –48

Material: MONGOLIA: Govi-Altai Aimag: holotype ♂ (ISEA) and paratypes 1♂ 4♀♀ (ISEA), 2 km NEE from Alag-Nur Lake, 45º10’N, 94º28’E, rubbly desert, 1060 m, 11.05.2012 (AF); 1♀ (ISEA), foothills of Huvchiyn- Nuru Mt. Range, NW shore of Alag-Nur Lake, 45º09’N, 94º24’E, gruss-rubbly slope on the erosion terrace, 1050 m, 12.05.2012 (AF). Khovd Aimag: 1♀ (ZMMU), 36 km SW from Altai Village, Bodonchiyn-Gol River Valley, 45º45’N, 92º11’E, stony desert, 1300 m, 7–8.05.2012 (AF). Ömnögovi Aimag: 1♂ 1♀ (Nr.834, NHMB), 100 km W von der Grenzposten Ovot Chuural, 22 km W von Sajryn chudag, 1250 m, Sammeln nachts bei Lampenlicht in 3 Stellen zvischen den Sandhügeln. 22.06.1967 (Z.Kaszab).

Etymology. The specific name is a patronym in honour of our friend and colleague Vladimir I. Ovtsharenko (New York).

Diagnosis. Males of the new species are similar to these of B. ubsunurica from which they can be easily distinguished by the tibial apophysis lacking a small tooth, the larger median apophysis and by having a triangle shaped outgrowth near the tip of embolus. Females of B. ovtsharenkoi sp. n. are most similar to B. hui from which they differ by having no peak of the fovea and larger receptacles.

Description. Male (holotype). Total length 6.8. Carapace: 3.15 long, 2.45 wide. Coloration: carapace, legs, palps, chelicerae, maxillae and labium yellow. Carapace dorsally with pattern formed by gray hairs (Fig. 45). Abdomen gray dorsally and yellow ventrally. Spination of leg IV: femur: d1-1-1, p0-0-1, r0-0-1; patella: p1-0, r1-0; tibia: d1-0-1, p1-1-1, r1-1-1, v2-2 -2; metatarsus: d1-2-0, p1-1-0, r1-1-0, v3 (2)-1-2.

Leg article length.

Palp as in Figs 38–44; tibia with small sharply pointed tibial apophysis; median apophysis long, longer than embolus, embolus short, with triangle-shaped outgrowth near tip (Fig. 44).

Female. Total length 4.85. Carapace: 2.3 long, 1.75 wide. Coloration as in male.

Spination of leg IV: femur: d1-1-0, p0-0-1, r0-0-1; patella: r1-0; tibia: d1-0-0(1), p1-1-1, r1(2)-1-1, v2-2 -2; metatarsus: d1-2-0, p1-1-0, r1-1-0, v2 (3)-2(1)-0(2).

Epigyne as in Figs 46–48; peak absent, fovea droplet shaped (upside down); receptacles large oval shaped, spaced by less than one radius, width of fovea less than two diameters of receptacle. Distribution. Known from the type locality only.