Neoscona tedgenica (Bakhvalov, 1978)

Zamani, Alireza, Marusik, Yuri M. & Sestakova, Anna, 2020, On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia, ZooKeys 906, pp. 13-40 : 13

Neoscona tedgenica (Bakhvalov, 1978) Fig. 18

Araneus tedgenicus Bakhvalov, 1978: 790, figs 1-4 (♀).

Aculepeira tedgenica : Brignoli 1983: 255.

Diagnosis.

Neoscona tedgenica differs from the closely similar N. spasskyi in the shape of the posterior area of the scape (triangulate vs. rounded) and the dorsal abdominal pattern (white “true” folium on a dark background in N. tedgenica , vs. dark “incomplete” folium on a light background in N. spasskyi ).

Comments.

See under Neoscona spasskyi (Brignoli, 1983). Types of this species are lost along with the rest of the private collection of Bakhvalov.

Distribution.

Turkmenistan ( Bakhvalov 1978).

Figures

Figure 18. Distribution records of Araniella mithra sp. nov. (blue circle), A. villanii sp. nov. (violet star), Neoscona isatis sp. nov. (green pentagon), N. spasskyi (black square), N. theisi (gray triangle, only new records) and N. tedgenica (brown asterisk).