Eratigena sicana Bolzern, Angelo, Burckhardt, Daniel & Hänggi, Ambros, 2013

Bolzern, Angelo, Burckhardt, Daniel & Hänggi, Ambros, 2013, Phylogeny and taxonomy of European funnel-web spiders of the Tegenaria-Malthonica complex (Araneae: Agelenidae) based upon morphological and molecular data, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 168 (4), pp. 723-848 : 772-773

ERATIGENA SICANA (BRIGNOLI, 1976) COMB. NOV.

( FIG. 12E, K )

Malthonica sicana Brignoli, 1976a: 30–33 , figs 1, 2, 4.

Material examined

Type material ( ♀ holotype , several ♂ and ♀ paratypes ) and other specimens were examined and listed in Bolzern et al. (2008).

Diagnosis

Eratigena sicana can be separated from E. herculea and E. hispanica by the characters mentioned in the Diagnosis section of E. arganoi . It can be separated from E. arganoi and E. sardoa by the simple pointed dorsal branch of the RTA (as in E. sardoa , complex and with three points in E. arganoi ), the bulb to cymbium ratio (equal to or less than 0.5, in the other species larger than 0.6), the relatively long male palp tibia (shorter in the other species), short and straight CD, and the presence of two pairs (one smaller than the other) of globular and smoothly sclerotized RC (long and convoluted CD with attached diverticula and one pair of RC in the other species).

Description

Essential information was provided by Brignoli (1976a) and Bolzern et al. (2008).

Distribution

Reported from Sicily ( Brignoli, 1976a) and Sardinia ( Bolzern et al., 2008).

Figures

Figure 12. A, B, Eratigena herculea; C, D, H, N, O, Eratigena arganoi; E, K, Eratigena sicana; F, G, L, M, Eratigena hispanica; I, J, P, Q, Eratigena sardoa; R–T, Eratigena picta. Female epigyne in ventral (A, C, F, I) and vulva in dorsal view (B, D, E, G, J); male left palp in ventral (L, N, P, R) and retrolateral views (M, O, Q, S); frontal face of male E. arganoi (H); habitus of female E. sicana (K); habitus of two males of E. picta (T). Scale bars = 0.5 mm.