Persilena sengleti, Zamani & Marusik, 2020
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https://doi.org/ 10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.368 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4335254 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/75207B3E-B012-FFE9-A23D-FF26FB291D9E |
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Persilena sengleti |
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sp. nov. |
Persilena sengleti View in CoL sp. n.
( Figs. 1C View Fig , 14 View Fig I–L, 15B)
Type material: Holotype ♀ and paratype 1♀ 1juv. ( MHNG), IRAN: Ilam Province: Dizgaran , 33°44′N 46°59′E, 16 May 1974 (A. Senglet). GoogleMaps
Etymology: This species is named after the late Antoine Senglet, an eminent arachnologist, who collected an extensive number of Iranian spiders.
Diagnosis: As for the genus.
Description of female: Habitus as in Fig. 1C View Fig . Total length 10.04. Carapace 3.76 long, 2.30 wide. Eye sizes and PME interdistance: AME: 0.18, ALE: 0.20, PME: 0.20, PLE: 0.21, PME–PME: 0.10. Chelicera with 2 prolateral and 3 retrolateral teeth. Carapace, sternum, labium, chelicera, and maxilla light brown. Carapace with dark margins, two wide, light submarginal bands, two wide, brown lateral bands, and a wide, light median band. Legs the same colour as the carapace and lacking distinct annulations. Abdomen light gray with scattered darker patches dorsally and with two longitudinal dark gray bands ventrally. Spinnerets uniformly light yellowish. Leg I measurements: 11.47 (2.94, 1.29, 2.52, 2.64, 2.08).
Epigyne as in Figs. 14 View Fig I–L, plate slightly extends over epigastric furrow, suboval, rebordered anteriorly; fovea absent, copulatory openings slit-like, indistinct; endogyne almost as long as wide and as deep as wide, with the copulatory ducts extended dorsally.
Male: Unknown.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality in Ilam Province, western Iran ( Fig. 15B View Fig ).
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Museum d'Histoire Naturelle |
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Ageleninae |
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