Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Persiscape  Zamani & Marusik, 2020   3 species

Persiscape gideoni  (Levy, 1996)

Description
Male

Palpal sclerit with mebranous outgrowth. Conductor broad.

Prosoma reddish-yellow, with two broad dark grey submarginal bands and thin grey margin. Labium brown. Maxillae brownish-yellow. Sternum greyish-brown with yellow median stripe. Chelicerae reddish-brown. Legs reddish-brown with obscure darkenings on femora. Opisthosoma light yellowish-grey, dorsum with anterior median lanceolate spot and 2 dark grey lateral bands, venter with a darkened rectangualr field between epigastric furrow and spinnerets. Basal segments of anterior spinnerets grey, other spinnerets yellow.

Body length male: 8.55 mm
Female

Epigyne rather small; Scapus transparent.

Colouration similar to that in males, except opisthosoma with paler lanceolate spot and lateral bands and vantral rectangular field less pronounced. 

Body length female: 6.9-11.2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Israel, Iran
Phenology
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Armenia   (Zarikian et al., 2022) ||| Azerbaijan   (Guseinov et al., 2005) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Demir et al., 2015) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1978a) Ragni di Turchia V. Specie nuove o interesanti, cavernicole ed epigee, di varie famiglie (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 85: 461-541 pdf

Demir H, Seyyar O, Türker H, Koçyiğit H O, Öner H (2015) The spider fauna of Melendiz Mountains, Niğde, Turkey. Serket 14: 146-166 pdf

Guseinov E F, Marusik Y M, Koponen S (2005) Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Azerbaijan 5. Faunistic review of the funnel-web spiders (Agelenidae) with the description of a new genus and species. Arthropoda Selecta 14: 153-177 pdf

Levy G (1996) The agelenid funnel-weaver family and the spider genus Cedicus in Israel (Araneae, Agelenidae and Cybaeidae). Zoologica Scripta 25: 85-122 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Zarikian N A, Propistsova E A, Marusik Y M (2022) On spider families (Arachnida: Araneae) new to Armenia. Israel Journal of Entomology 51: 103-117 pdf

Updates
26-05-2022 Distribution insert Detail
24-03-2020 Distribution update Detail
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26-03-2013 Datasheet update Detail
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