Persiscape caucasica ( Guseinov, Marusik & Koponen, 2005 ) Zamani & Marusik, 2020

Zamani, Alireza & Marusik, Yuri M., 2020, A review of Agelenini (Araneae: Agelenidae: Ageleninae) of Iran and Tajikistan, with descriptions of four new genera, Arachnology 18 (4), pp. 368-386 : 376

Persiscape caucasica ( Guseinov, Marusik & Koponen, 2005) comb. n.

( Figs. 12 M–O, 15A)

Agelescape caucasica Guseinov, Marusik & Koponen 2005: 157 , figs. 9–12, 69–71, 105 (♀).

Diagnosis: This species differs from congeners by a scape that is longer than wide ( Fig. 12M ) and large membranous parts of the copulatory duct which are bent posteriorly ( Fig. 12O ) ( v. scape not longer than wide, membranous parts of copulatory ducts short and not bent posteriorly).

Description: See Guseinov, Marusik & Koponen (2005).

Distribution: Lesbos ( Bosmans et al. 2009), CentralAnatolia (Demir, Seyyar & Türke 2014), Georgia, and Azerbaijan ( Otto 2018) ( Fig. 15A ).

Figures

Fig. 12: Epigynes, different specimens showing variation.A Persiscape levyi, ventral view;B same, dorsal view; C same, ventral view;D same, dorsal view; E same, ventral view; F same, posterior view; G same, dorsal view; H P. gideoni, ventral view; I, D same, posterior views; K, L same, dorsal views; M P. caucasica, ventral view; N same, posterior view; O same, dorsal view. E–G, H–I, L–O after Guseinov, Marusik & Koponen (2005). Scale bars = 0.2 mm, unless otherwise indicated.

Fig. 15: Distribution maps. A Agelescape afFnis, A. livida, and Persiscape caucasica; B P. caspica sp. n., P. ecbatana sp. n., P. nassirkhanii sp. n., P. levyi, P. zagrosensis sp. n., Asiascape parthica sp. n., Persilena sengleti sp. n., and Gorbiscape gorbachevi sp. n.; C Persiscape gideoni.