Hersiliola, Thorell, 1870

Marusik, Yuri & Fet, Victor, 2009, A survey of East Palaearctic Hersiliola Thorell, 1870 (Araneae, Hersiliidae), with a description of three new genera, ZooKeys 16 (16), pp. 75-114 : 84

Hersiliola sp.

Fig. 7 .2 H. simoni: Benoit 1974: 997 , f. 3, 6 (♀) (?)

Material examined. A slide of the epigyne ( SMF, from the H. Wiehle collection) labeled as “ H. macullulata from Palestine.

Comments. Unlike other species from the Middle East ( Israel), this specimen has only one coil of the insemination duct, and it can be expected that its male should have a correspondingly shorter embolus. It could belong to H. lucasi (O.P.- Cambridge, 1876), which was described from Egypt and is currently synonymous with H. simoni . Conformation of the epigyne is similar to those illustrated by Benoit (1974) from Tunisia and identified as H. simoni . Benoit (1974) compared his specimen with those from Egypt.

Figures

Figure 7. Epigynes of Hersiliola versicolor (1), Hersiliola sp. (2), H. lindbergi sp. n. (3, 6), H. afghanica (4-5), H. sternbergsi sp. n. (7-9), H. esyunini sp. n. (10-12), and H. foordi sp. n. (13-14). 1-8, 10-11, 13-14 ventral 9, 12 dorsal. Scale = 0.5 mm.