Enoplognatha oelandica (Thorell, 1875)

Seropian, Armen, Bulbulashvili, Natalia, Krammer, Hans-Joachim, Thormann, Jana, Hein, Nils, Karalashvili, Elisabeth, Kachlishvili, Nino & Datunashvili, Anastasia, 2024, Picking pearls from the Silk Road: Insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus Barcode of Life (CaBOL) project. Part III, Caucasiana 3, pp. 89-118 : 89

* Enoplognatha oelandica (Thorell, 1875)

Fig. 36

Enoplognatha oelandica Bosmans & Van Keer, 1999: 224, figs 63-67 (♂♀).

Enoplognatha oelandica Huseynov & Marusik, 2008: 157, figs 7-9, 52-54, 67, 78 (♀).

Material examined.

GEORGIA - Mtskheta-Mtianeti • 2♀♀; N of Shevardeni, Mna Valley ; N42.58°, E44.47°; 2012 m a.s.l.; leg. Krammer H.-J. & Karalashvili E.; 7 Jul. 2019; ZFMK-TISs 8008103, 8008104 (BOLD:AFI9404) .

Baroding. Two nearly identical barcodes were obtained from the specimens ZFMK-TIS 8008103 and 8008104 (BOLD:AFI9404, p -distance 0.15%). According to the BOLD Systems library, there are 3 barcodes of the species with a private status that failed to indicate a good match with our specimens. Either the specimens in the BOLD Systems belong to other species, or the COI gene is not a proper tool to differentiate this particular species.

Remarks.

This species is distributed from Spain north to Sweden and east to Kazakhstan and China ( Nentwig et al. 2023; WSC 2023). In the Caucasus, it is recorded in Azerbaijan and Dagestan ( Otto 2023). It is the first record of E. oelandica in Georgia. The females of E. oelandica are distinguished from those of the diversa-species group by a median pit 1.5 times as wide as long and the copulatory ducts forming a large lateral loop.

Genus Euryopis Menge, 1868

Figures

Figures 31 - 36. Philodromus fuscolimbatus, female (31: endogyne, dorsal view). Pulchellodromus medius, male (32: left palpus, ventral view; 33: same, retrolateral view). Phrurolithus azarkinae, male (34: left palpus, retrolateral view; 35: tibial apophysis, dorsal view). Enoplognatha oelandica, female (36: endogyne, dorsal view). Scale bars: 0.2 mm (31 - 33); 0.1 mm (34 - 36).