The Genus Clubiona Latreille, 1904 (Araneae: Clubionidae) in the Maghreb, with Notes on the Genevensis Group and New Records from the Mediterranean Region
Zootaxa 4353 (1): 001–028 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/ Article ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2017 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4353.1.1 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7D342E35-8D42-4C3D-9903-49E5F08D7D34 The genus Clubiona Latreille, 1904 (Araneae: Clubionidae) in the Maghreb, with notes on the genevensis group and new records from the Mediterranean Region ROBERT BOSMANS1,6, ARNAUD HENRARD2,3,6, SOUÂD BENHALIMA4 & OURIDA KHERBOUCHE-ABROUS5 1Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ledeganckstraaat 35, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. ²Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, B-3080 Tervuren, Belgium 3Earth and life Institute, Biodiversity research Center, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. 4Université Mohammed V - Agdal, Institut Scientifique, Rabat, Morocco. 5Laboratoire de Dynamique et Biodiversité, Faculté de Biologie, Université Houari Boumédienne, El Alia, Bab Ezzouar, Alger, Algérie. 6Corresponding authors. E-mail: rop_bosmans@telenet.be; arnaud.henrard@gmail.com Abstract A survey of the members of the genus Clubiona Latreille, 1904 in the Maghreb is presented. The presence of Clubiona comta C. L. Koch, 1839, C. dinienis Simon, 1878, C. leucaspis Simon, 1932, C. phragmitis C. L. Koch 1843 and C. vegeta Simon, 1918 is confirmed. Clubiona pseudosimilis Mikhailov, 1990, from the eastern Mediterranean is new to Africa and Portugal. A specimen of C. neglecta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1862, cited from Morocco in the past, was misidentified and appears to be C. pseudoneglecta Wunderlich, 1994. The species is new to Algeria and Spain. Two new synonyms are re- vealed: Clubiona baborensis Denis, 1937 from Algeria = C.
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