Mesiotelus tenuissimus (L. Koch, 1866)

(Figs 17–21, 22)

Mikhailov, Fet, 1986: 173, fig. 1; Kovblyuk et al., 2008: 19, figs 6–12; Bosmans et al., 2009: 35, figs 24–28; Bosmans, El-Hennawy, 2018: 101, figs 1, 2; El-Hennawy, 2022 a: 418, figs 2–5.

Material. 1 ♀, Turkey, Kırıkkale Prov., Yahşihan District, 39°53 ʹ 13 ʺ N / 33°27 ʹ 00 ʺ E, 856 m, 5.02.2018 (T. Danışman) .

Brief description of studied specimen. Total length 5.1. Carapace length 1.9, width 1.6. Abdomen length 3.2, width 1.8. Ocular area length 0.55. Chelicera length 0.9, width 0.45. Sternum length 1.2, width 1 Leg formula IV, I, II, III. Legs: leg I 7.2 (2, 0.9, 1.9, 1.5, 0.9), leg II 6.3 (1.8, 0.7, 1.7, 1.3, 0.8), leg III 5.9 (1.6, 0.6, 1.4, 1.5, 0.8), leg IV 8.7 (2.3, 0.8, 2.2, 2.5, 0.9).

Carapace light yellow, covered with small dark colour hairs and edges dark (Fig. 19). Clypeus narrow and dark yellow (Fig. 21). Chelicerae long, yellow, dorsally with long dark setae (Fig. 21). Sternum light yellow, without setae. Labium and maxillae dark yellow. Abdomen grayish, densely covered with long hairs, with white patterned (Fig. 20). Legs yellow, covered with light hairs (Fig. 19).

Epigyne. Lateral margins of fovea horizontal, margins form an angle of approximately 180° between each other. Spermathecae separated from each other by their diameter. Anterior hood (i.e. anterior pocket) prominent, its width about half of interspermathecal space (Figs 17, 18).

Distribution. North Africa,Europe, Turkey (Anatolia), Turkmenistan [World Spider Catalog, 2022].