ArachnologyPub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.862
Blerina Vrenozi, Alfred Uchman
{"title":"Burrows of the wolf spider Geolycosa vultuosa (C. L. Koch, 1838) (Araneae: Lycosidae) in Albania, with general remarks on burrowing by wolf spiders","authors":"Blerina Vrenozi, Alfred Uchman","doi":"10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.862","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Geolycosa vultuosa (C. L. Koch, 1838) (Lycosidae) is a large, deeply burrowing spider, occurring from south-eastern Europe to Central Asia. This species is found in a mountain pasture on Dajti Mountain in the Tirana district. The structure of the burrow and burrowing ecology of G. vultuosa are discussed in comparison to those seen in other species of wolf spiders. Four burrows of Geolycosa vultuosa inhabited by subadult and adult females were observed in soil vegetated with low grass and a few other low plants at the end of September 2014. These burrows were cast with cement and excavated. The burrows consisted of vertical to subvertical, slightly curved, or nearly straight shafts. Compared to other burrows of wolf spiders, three burrows of G. vultuosa did not show any basal chamber, but a gradual widening from the middle to the base. One burrow showed a basal chamber with a basal protrusion thinner than the shaft. Burrow surfaces and entrances were unornamented.","PeriodicalId":38197,"journal":{"name":"Arachnology","volume":"61 1","pages":"862 - 867"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81216207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArachnologyPub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.809
{"title":"A suite of behavioural and morphological traits camouflage Allocyclosa bifurca (McCook, 1887) (Araneae: Araneidae)","authors":"","doi":"10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.809","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Several traits of adult female Allocyclosa bifurca, including the forms and the colours of the dorsal and the ventral sides of the abdomen that match bumpy and smooth surfaces and associated colours of the two sides of the egg sac, the colours and positions of the spider's legs and the spiders' prey wrapping behaviour and their orientation of prey packages while they feed all increase the match with the overall shapes and colours of the egg sacs, visually camouflaging the spider at the hub of its orb. This camouflage is partially broken in two contexts: apparent attempts to avoid overheating in direct sunlight, and feeding. Neither a predatory bird nor a parasitoid wasp showed signs of being fooled by the camouflage.","PeriodicalId":38197,"journal":{"name":"Arachnology","volume":"23 1","pages":"809 - 815"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139361176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArachnologyPub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.868
Andrei V. Tanasevitch
{"title":"A new, remarkable species of Neriene Blackwall, 1859 from northern Vietnam (Araneae: Linyphiidae)","authors":"Andrei V. Tanasevitch","doi":"10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.868","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Neriene clivosa sp. n. is described, based on a single male from northern Vietnam. The new species is characterized by a unique shape of the male carapace furnished with six conical projections at its edges. Based on the palp structure, N. clivosa sp. n. seems to be especially similar to N. longipedella (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) and N. marginella (Oi, 1960), both southeastern Palaearctic, as well as to the Oriental N. strandia (Blauvelt, 1936). The new species can easily be distinguished from all known congeners by the shape of the carapace, in addition from the most similar species by some details of palpal structure.","PeriodicalId":38197,"journal":{"name":"Arachnology","volume":"30 1","pages":"868 - 872"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80899940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArachnologyPub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.816
Danniella Sherwood, Arnaud Henrard, Dmitri V. Logunov, Liza Fowler
{"title":"Saint Helenian wolf spiders, with description of two new genera and three new species (Araneae: Lycosidae)","authors":"Danniella Sherwood, Arnaud Henrard, Dmitri V. Logunov, Liza Fowler","doi":"10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.816","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The lycosid fauna of Saint Helena, consisting of entirely endemic species, is revised. Lycosa ringens Tongiorgi, 1977 and Lycosa elysae Tongiorgi, 1977 are redescribed and transferred to Antembolus gen. nov., creating the new combinations Antembolus elysae comb. nov. and Antembolus ringens comb. nov. Dolocosa dolosa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873, Hogna cinica Tongiorgi, 1977, H. inexorabilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870), H. ligata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870), and H. nefasta Tongiorgi, 1977 are re-diagnosed and illustrated. Hogna sanctaehelenae (Strand, 1909) is confirmed to be a junior synonym of H. ligata, based on examination of photographs of the immature holotype. A remarkable new monotypic lycosine genus, Molearachne gen. nov., with a new species M. sanctaehelenae sp. nov., is described based on both sexes from Prosperous Bay Plain, where it makes unique mounds which have earnt it the local common name Mole Spider. Two further new endemic species are described: Dolocosa joshuai sp. nov., based on the female, and Hogna veseyensis sp. nov., based on both sexes. Thus, the fauna consists of four genera, including three endemic, and nine species, which are all endemic.","PeriodicalId":38197,"journal":{"name":"Arachnology","volume":"75 1","pages":"816 - 851"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72713519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArachnologyPub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.852
Mauricio Macías-Tulcán, William Galvis, Natalia Molina-Moreira
{"title":"New species and records of jumping spiders from Ecuador (Araneae: Salticidae)","authors":"Mauricio Macías-Tulcán, William Galvis, Natalia Molina-Moreira","doi":"10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.852","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Two new species of the genus Chapoda Peckham & Peckham, 1896 are described and illustrated from southern Ecuador. Both new species C. guancavilca n. sp. (♂♀) and C. santay n. sp. (♀) are described and illustrated from Puná and Santay Islands, Guayas province. In addition, two new genera records are reported from Ecuador: Bellota Peckham & Peckham, 1892 (with B. formicina (Taczanowski, 1878)) and Martella Peckham & Peckham, 1892 (with M. gandu Galiano, 1996), along with a new species record of Lyssomanes elegans (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900). Finally, new faunistic records are given for Corythalia scutellaris (Bayer, 2020), Frigga crocuta (Taczanowski, 1878), F. opulenta (Galiano, 1979), and L. unicolor (Taczanowski, 1871). A distribution map with these and previously published records on the genera here analysed is provided.","PeriodicalId":38197,"journal":{"name":"Arachnology","volume":"80 2 1","pages":"852 - 861"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89975143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArachnologyPub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.777
D. Sherwood, R. Gabriel
{"title":"Cymbiapophysa seldeni, a new theraphosine species from Ecuador (Araneae: Theraphosidae)","authors":"D. Sherwood, R. Gabriel","doi":"10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.777","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Cymbiapophysa Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 is a theraphosine genus endemic to South America, diagnosable on genital organ morphology in both sexes, and the presence of a distal-retrolateral apophysis on the male cymbium. Examination of historical material in the Natural History Museum, London, recently revealed a new species from Carondelet, Ecuador, with distinct palpal bulb and tibial apophysis morphology, described herein as Cymbiapophysa seldeni sp. nov.","PeriodicalId":38197,"journal":{"name":"Arachnology","volume":"78 1","pages":"777 - 779"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139361011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArachnologyPub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.805
David Chamé-Vázquez, María-Luisa Jiménez
{"title":"A new spider of the Plectreurys castanea species group (Araneae: Plectreuridae) from California, USA","authors":"David Chamé-Vázquez, María-Luisa Jiménez","doi":"10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.805","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A new species of the Plectreurys castanea species group from Los Angeles County, California, United States, is described, diagnosed, and illustrated. Males of P. palacioscardieli sp. nov. are characterized by the shape of the apical division of the bulb. A brief discussion of the restricted distribution and resemblance to other species of the same group is given.","PeriodicalId":38197,"journal":{"name":"Arachnology","volume":"84 1","pages":"805 - 808"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80560168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArachnologyPub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.798
Robert Perger, Heiko Metzner, Hubert Höfer, Gonzalo D. Rubio
{"title":"A new species of the jumping spider Flurica from Southwest Amazon forest (Araneae: Salticidae: Simonellini)","authors":"Robert Perger, Heiko Metzner, Hubert Höfer, Gonzalo D. Rubio","doi":"10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.798","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A new species of the ant-resembling jumping spider tribe Simonellini, Flurica amazonica sp. nov., is described from the Southwest Amazon forest in Beni Department, Bolivia. The species can be separated from its only congener Flurica sikimira Perger & Rubio, 2022 by the male palp lacking a dorsal tibial apophysis, the ventral tibial apophysis shorter, the embolus arising at the proximo-retrolateral side of the tegulum, and the chelicerae with three promarginal teeth. Adults of both Flurica species are likely mimics of the turtle ant Cephalotes pusillus (Klug, 1824).","PeriodicalId":38197,"journal":{"name":"Arachnology","volume":"10 1","pages":"798 - 801"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73084306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArachnologyPub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.788
Jaime Escobar-Toledo, B. Pett
{"title":"Contributions to knowledge of two-tailed spiders of Madagascar, with first description of the female of Hersilia moheliensis Foord & Dippenaar-Schoemann, 2006 (Araneae: Hersiliidae)","authors":"Jaime Escobar-Toledo, B. Pett","doi":"10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.788","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The female of Hersilia moheliensis Foord & Dippenaar- Schoemann, 2006 is described for the first time. The species is newly recorded from Madagascar, having previously been known from only a single specimen from the Comoros. Additionally, we provide new records of Hersilia insulana Strand, 1907 in Madagascar.","PeriodicalId":38197,"journal":{"name":"Arachnology","volume":"2 1","pages":"788 - 791"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139360853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArachnologyPub Date : 2023-03-20DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.4.699
A. Asima, J. Caleb, G. Prasad
{"title":"A new species of Thiania C. L. Koch, 1846 from the Western Ghats, India (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini)","authors":"A. Asima, J. Caleb, G. Prasad","doi":"10.13156/arac.2023.19.4.699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2023.19.4.699","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A new euophryine species, Thiania indica sp. n. (♂♀), is diagnosed and described from the Western Ghats of southern India. Detailed descriptions, diagnostic features, and illustrations for the new species are provided.","PeriodicalId":38197,"journal":{"name":"Arachnology","volume":"38 1","pages":"699 - 701"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89043978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}