Zodariellum testaceofasciatum (Spassky, 1941) comb. n.

Fig. 12A

Zodarion testaceo-fasciatum Spassky, 1941: 14, fig. 3 (♀).

Zodarion testaceo-fasciatum Spassky & Luppova, 1945: 45 (♀).

Zodarion testaceofasciatum: Brignoli 1983: 213 .

Comments. This species was described twice, in two different publications and under the same name. Apparently, the original manuscript was sent to the publisher in Riga prior to World War II, and Spassky was unaware that his paper was published during the war (in 1941) and resubmitted the manuscript again, this time in coauthorship with E.P. Luppova to the Soviet journal Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie. The second manuscript was published in 1945, without any figures.

The species is known only from the type locality, and only one figure showing the abdominal pattern has been published for it. It is very likely that Z. zebra, a species with similar abdominal pattern and type locality not far from that of Z. testaceofasciatum, is a junior synonym of it. Although the epigyne of this species is not described, we decided to transfer it to Zodariellum considering its similarity to Z. zebra and the fact that only Zodariellum and “ Zodarion ” denisi Spassky, 1938 are known to occur in the region.

Distribution. Tajikistan (Fig. 12A).