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First description of the male of zamanii Marusik & Omelko, 2014 (Araneae: ) from northern Iran

YURI M. MARUSIK1,2,3,4 & ALIREZA ZAMANI5 1Institute for Biological Problems of the North RAS, Portovaya Str. 18, Magadan 685000, Russia. E-mail: [email protected] 2Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa 3Far Eastern Federal University, Sukhanova 8, Vladivostok 690950, Russia 4Zoological Museum, University of Turku, FI-20014 TURKU, Finland 5School of Biology, College of Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. E-mail: [email protected]

The family Agelenidae is a large-sized, globally-distributed family currently comprising 1174 species in 70 genera (World Spider Catalog 2015). The largest of the family, Tegenaria Latreille, 1804, consists of 114 accepted species, primarily distributed in the Palaearctic, but also with some species occurring in the Oriental and Nearctic regions (World Spider Catalog 2015; Kaya et al. 2010). So far, only four species of this genus have been recorded from Iran: T. domestica (Clerck, 1757), T. lenkoranica (Guseinov, Marusik & Koponen, 2005), T. pagana C.L. Koch, 1840 and T. zamanii Marusik & Omelko, 2014 (Zamani et al. 2015). Two of these species, T. lenkoranica and T. zamanii are currently known only from females. Latter species was originally described on the basis of recently collected specimens from a cave in Golestan Province of northern Iran, known as Shirabad (= Div Sepid) (Marusik et al. 2014). In July 2015, as a result of a collecting expedition made by the junior author and his team several specimens were observed and photographed in their natural habitat. A single adult male was collected, which is described and illustrated here for the first time. The specimen was photographed using an Olympus Camedia E-520 camera attached to an Olympus SZX16 stereomicroscope. Digital images were prepared using “CombineZP” image stacking software. Lengths of the leg measurements were measured on the dorsal side. The description of the palp refers to the left one. All measurements are given in millimetres. Measurements of palp and leg are listed as: total length (femur, patella, tibia, metatarsus, tarsus). The specimen will be deposited in the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF). The junior author wishes to thank his team for their assistance during the zoological expedition made to the cave and surrounding forests in northern Iran. James W. Berry kindly checked the English of an earlier draft of the manuscript.

Family Agelenidae C. L. Koch, 1837 Genus Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 Tegenaria zamanii Marusik & Omelko, 2014 Figs 1‒7 Tegenaria zamanii Marusik & Omelko, in Marusik et al. (2014): 256, f. 1a‒l, 2a‒e (♀).

Material examined: IRAN: 1 ♂ (SMF), Golestan Province: Gorgan, Khan Bebin, Shirabad Waterfall, Shirabad Cave, 36°56’N, 55°02’E, 256 m, July 2015 (A. Zamani). Note. Findings of the male proved that this species belongs to Tegenaria sensu stricto, but not to the related Bolzern, Burckhardt & Hänggi, 2013, and fit the diagnosis provided by Bolzern et al. (2013): six retromarginal teeth of subequal size, presence of a lateroventral ridge (lacking in Eratigena) and bifid apex of the conductor. Diagnosis. Male of T. zamanii is most similar to those of T. domestica, the generotype, by having short conductor, short embolus, lamellate tibial apophysis and elongate tip of the cymbium, but can be distinguished by thinner embolus with gradually tapering tip (not abrupt as in T. domestica, cf. Fig. 37 in Guseinov et al. 2005), almost reduced prolateral arm of the conductor, shorter tegulum and much longer palp, almost as long as body (prolateral arm of conductor well developed, tegulum elongate and palp almost twice shorter than body). Description. Male. Total length 7.5. Carapace 3.7 long, 2.75 wide. Light coloured (Figs. 5, 7). Carapace uniformly

226 Accepted by J. Miller: 5 Nov. 2015; published: 2 Dec. 2015 yellow with slightly darker cephalic part. Sternum with pattern as in female, but almost indistinct: with wide light median band, round light lateral spots missing. Chelicerae with 3 pro- and 6 retromarginal teeth of subequal size. Legs very long and without annulations (Figs. 5, 7). Leg I length 28.9 (7.5, 1.5, 8.0, 8.3, 3.6). Abdomen coloured as in female. Palp as in Figs. 1‒4, 6; 6.9 long (2.75, 0.75, 1.85, 1.55), almost as long as whole body. Femur wider than other segments. Distal part of tibia with lateroventral ridge (Vr) and wide and flat apophysis. Cymbium long, its tip longer than basal part and bulb. Bulb slightly longer than wide; median apophysis (Ta) wider than long; conductor massive with almost reduced prolateral arm (Pa), retrolateral arm (Ra) with bifid apex (Fig. 1); embolus short, gradually tapering, rounded, starts at a 9 o'clock position. Female. Described in details in Marusik et al. (2014). Distribution. Known only from Shirabad Cave in Golestan Province, northern Iran.

FIGURES 1‒7. Male of Tegenaria zamanii. 1 terminal part of palp, retrolateral; 2 same, dorsal; 3 same, ventral; 4 bulb, ventral; 5 habitus, lateral; 6 whole palp, retrolateral; 7 prosoma, lateral. All scales are 0.2, unless stated otherwise.

References Bolzern, A., Burckhardt, D. & Hänggi, A. (2013) Phylogeny and of European funnel-web of the Tegenaria- Malthonica complex (Araneae: Agelenidae) based upon morphological and molecular data. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 168, 723‒848. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12040 Guseinov, E.F., Marusik, Y.M. & Koponen, S. (2005) Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Azerbaijan 5. Faunistic review of the funnel-web

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