Tegenaria schmalfussi, BRIGNOLI, 1976

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 : 816

TEGENARIA SCHMALFUSSI BRIGNOLI, 1976

( FIG. 17U )

Tegenaria schmalfussi Brignoli, 1976b: 571 , 572, fig. 57, female.

Type

Holotype. Greece: Crete: Milatos, ‘ Grotta di Milatos’ , ♀ ( MCSN, 544 ), 23.viii.1972, Schmalfuss.

Other material examined

Greece (1 ♀) .

Diagnosis

Tegenaria schmalfussi has moderately reduced eyes, distal segment of PMS almost 2 x longer than the basal segment, and very distinctly formed epigyne and vulva ( Fig. 17U ).

Description

A description was provided by Brignoli (1976b).

Distribution

Reported from Greece (Crete, Milatos cave).

Discussion

During a visit to the type locality in 2007, A. Bolzern found only specimens of Teg. parietina . At present this species remains represented only by two female specimens.

Figures

Figure 17. A, B, Tegenaria domestica; C, F, G, M, N, Tegenaria racovitzai; D, E, Q, R, Tegenaria hauseri; H-J, Tegenaria bozhkovi; K, L, O, P, Tegenaria campestris; S, T, Tegenaria pieperi; U, Tegenaria schmalfussi; V, Tegenaria faniapollinis; W, Tegenaria percuriosa (holotype of Tegenaria bithyniae); X-Z, Tegenaria croatica sp. nov. Left male palp in ventral (M, O, Q) and retrolateral views (N, P, R); epigyne in ventral (D, F, H, K, S, U–W, Y) and posterioventral views (T), vulva in dorsal (E, G, I, L, U, Z) and lateral views (J); face of female Teg. domestica (A) and Teg. racovitzai (C); cheliceral margins of female Teg. domestica in posterioventral view (B); habitus, dorsal view (X). Scale bars = 0.5 mm (no scale for Teg. faniapollinis, V, and Teg. schmalfussi, U).