Malthonica ramblae ( Barrientos, 1978 ) Barrientos, 1978

Deltshev, Christo, 2008, Two new spider species, Malthonica bozhkovi sp. nov. and Tegenaria paragamiani sp. nov. from Rhodopy Mountains (Bulgaria and Greece) (Araneae: Agelenidae), Zootaxa 1872, pp. 37-44 : 43

Tegenaria ramblae Barrientos, 1978 = Malthonica ramblae ( Barrientos, 1978) comb. n.

The genus Malthonica Simon, 1898 was described by Simon (1898) with the type species Malthonica lusitanica Simon, 1898 . His arguments concern four somatic features: position of eye rows and size of anterior eyes; narrow clypeus; size and number of teeth of posterior margin of the chelicerae and clearly two-segmented posterior spinnerets, with the apical segment slightly shorter than the basal segment. The male palp of Malthonica lusitanica is characterised by a long, filamentous embolus originating basally. Levy (1996) has pointed out that two forms of palpal confirmation can be distinguished among species of genus Tegenaria . One group includes species with short and thick embolus, while another group consists of species with long filamentous embolus. Looking on the type species of Malthonica, Guseinov et al. (2005) transferred all Tegenaria species with long filamentous embolus to the genus Malthonica . In this respect, the pictures of Tegenaria ramblae ( Barrientos, 1978) fit well with this comprehension of the taxonomic status of genus Malthonica . Until a combined morphological and molecular analysis of the genus Tegenaria (s.l.) is undertaken, we can not be sure that the genus Malthonica is monophyletic. As it is not the aim of this paper to answer this question, we follow the last nomenclature alteration in the group.