Pterotricha dalmasi Fage, 1929

Figs 1E, 2D, 3C, 5A-C

Identification.

Zamani (2018).

Material.

IRAQ: Najaf Province: 3♂ (MMBC), Ash Shabakah camp, 150 km SW of Najaf, [30°48'N, 43°39'E], 260 m, stone desert (O. Jakeš) ; 7♂ 1♀ (MMBC), same locality, 16.10.1972 (O. Jakeš) .

Distribution.

North Africa and the Middle East.

Comment.

New record for Iraq. Previously, this species was only provisionally recorded from Iran based on a single female specimen (Zamani et al. 2018), and specimens of both sexes from United Arab Emirates were only tentatively matched (Zamani 2018); the finding of the two sexes in the same locality reinforces the correct matching of this female with the male of P. dalmasi .

The females of this species were described for the first time by Levy (1995), who provided figures of two “forms” of the epigyne (Levy 1995: figs 74-75). In our opinion and based on material from Iraq, Iran and UAE, only the form illustrated on fig. 75 is correctly matched with the male of P. dalmasi, and the one illustrated on fig. 74 belongs to another (perhaps undescribed) species.