Monaeses israeliensis Levy, 1973

Fedoriak, M. M., Kovblyuk, M. M. & Kastrygina, Z. A., 2023, The First Record From Ukraine Of The Spider Monaeses Israeliensis (Aranei, Thomisidae) From The Crimea, Zoodiversity 57 (5), pp. 379-382 : 381

Monaeses israeliensis Levy, 1973 (figs 1–7)

Monaeses israeliensis Levy, 1973: 111 , figs 8–11 ({,});

Monaeses israeliensis : Levy, 1985: 20, figs 15–18 ({,});

Monaeses israeliensis : Naumova et al., 2021: 240 , figs 22A-G ({,}).

For complete list of taxonomic references see WSC (2023).

Material examined. Ukraine: Crimea, Cape Aya, Turkish Lawn, near the cafe, net sweeping,

20.06.2011, 3} ( MMF2313 ); Turkish Lawn, grass, stones, litter, hand collecting , 20.06.2011, 1} ( MMF2314 ) .

Diagnosis. In general appearance Monaeses israeliensis is similar to M. paradoxus , but differs by the structure of the copulatory organs.

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Bulgaria, Greece, Caucasus (Krasnodar Region, Kabardinka Vil. and Gelendzhik), Israel, Lebanon, Turkey, China (Xinjiang), India, Iran, Kazakhstan (Mangyshlak (Mañğystau) Peninsula), Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan ( Logunov et al., 2012; Mikhailov, 2013; Ponomarev et al., 2014; Yuan et al., 2019; WSC, 2023). Ukraine (Crimea) (first record).

Notes. This is the first record of both genus and species Monaeses israeliensis in Ukraine. Cape Aya is one of the two northernmost known localities of the species (another is Kabardinka Village in the Krasnodar Region).

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Olena Iaroshynska, Yuliia Semenko, and the group of students of the Department of Ecology and Biomonitoring for their participation in the collecting of the material. We express gratitude to Christoph Muster (Greifswald, Germany), Jeorg Wunderlich (Hirschberg, Germany), Olena Iaroshynska (Chernivtsi, Ukraine) and Eugene Zhukovets (Minsk, Belarus) for their contribution in species identification. We thank Pavel Gol’din (Kyiv, Ukraine) for the language proofreading of the earlier draft and Viktor Fet (Huntington, USA) for the editing the English of the final draft.