Eratigena sardoa 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

ERATIGENA SARDOA (BRIGNOLI, 1977) COMB. NOV.

( FIG. 12I–J, P–Q )

Malthonica sardoa Brignoli, 1977a: 38 , 39, fig. 19, female; Bolzern et al., 2008: 770–773, figs 12–14, male.

Material examined

All type specimens (5 ♀) and other specimens were examined and listed in Bolzern et al. (2008).

Other material examined

Italy (1 ♂, 4 ♀) .

Diagnosis

Eratigena sardoa 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. sicana by the simple pointed dorsal branch of the RTA (as in E. sicana , complex and with three points in E. arganoi ), the very long, drawn out, and strongly sclerotized terminal end of the conductor (much shorter in the other species), the very long and convoluted CD with attached appendages (as in E. arganoi , much shorter and straight in E. sicana ), and the globular and smoothly sclerotized RC (long oval and irregularly sclerotized in E. arganoi , with two pairs of globular RC in E. sicana ).

Description

Essential information was provided by Brignoli (1977a) and Bolzern et al. (2008).

Distribution

Reported from Sardinia.

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.