Nomisia ripariensis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

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

* Nomisia ripariensis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

Figs 11-13

Nomisia ripariensis Levy, 1995: 931, figs 26-30 (♂♀).

Nomisia ripariensis Ponomarev et al., 2019: 316, fig. 10 (♂).

Material examined.

GEORGIA - Kakheti • 6♂♂; Dedoplistskaro mun., Vashlovani NP, Mijniskure ; N41.1127°, E46.6460°; 101 m a.s.l.; semidesert, the light trap; leg. Kaitila J.-P. & Junnilainen J.; 22 May 2023; CaBOL-IDs 1035768, 1035775, 1035790, 1035810, 1035811, 1035822 . Kvemo Kartli • 1♀; Marneuli mun., Shulaveri ; N41.3681°, E44.8219°; 479 m a.s.l.; under rocks in steppe; leg. Seropian A., Bulbulashvili N. & Zukakishvili A.; 3 Jun. 2023; CaBOL-ID 1020862 .

Remarks.

This species is distributed from the eastern Mediterranean north to Dagestan and east to Iran ( Nentwig et al. 2023; WSC 2023). In the Caucasus, it is reported from a single locality in Dagestan and several localities in Azerbaijan ( Otto 2023). It is the first record of N. ripariensis from Georgia. The examined material originates from the Georgian-Azerbaijani border, although the nearest record to our specimens is from Dagestan. Males of N. ripariensis are most similar to those of co-occurring in the Caucasus and Georgia N. conigera (Spassky, 1941), from which they are distinguished by a shorter retrolateral tibial apophysis (longer in N. conigera ), a shorter and more oblique prolateral arm of the conductor (distinctly protruding and conical in N. conigera ), and shape of the embolus (distinctly longer than wide in N. conigera ; width and length approximately the same in N. ripariensis ). Females are most similar to those of N. exornata (C.L. Koch, 1839) and N. excerpta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872), but differ in the shape of the receptaculum seminis.

Genus Marinarozelotes Ponomarev, 2020

Figures

Figures 11 - 15. Nomisia ripariensis, male (11: left palpus, ventral view; 12: same, retrolateral view; 13: tibial apophysis, dorsal view). Poecilochroa senilis, male (14: left palpus, ventral view; 15: same, retrolateral view). Scale bars = 0.2 mm.