Acanthinozodium masa
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Ordo: Araneae
Familia: Zodariidae
Genus: Acanthinozodium
Name
Acanthinozodium masa Zamani & Marusik, 2021 sp. nov. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type material
Holotype ♂ and paratype ♂ (MHNG), Iran: Kermanshah Province: Mahi Dasht, 34°14'N, 46°42'E, 29.06.1974 (A. Senglet).
Etymology
The specific epithet is a Kurdish feminine name, meaning “bright like the moon”. Noun in apposition.
Diagnosis
The new species is very similar to A. diara sp. nov. by the shape of the RTA, the ventral tibial apophysis and the curvature of the embolus but differs by the shape of the median apophysis (cf. Fig. 20D and 20J) and the conductor lacking a small retrolateral indentation apically (vs. present).
Description
Male (holotype). Habitus as in Fig. 18L. Total length 3.05. Carapace 1.47 long, 0.66 wide at pars cephalica, 1.10 wide at pars thoracica. Eye sizes and interdistance of PMEs: AME: 0.12, ALE: 0.10, PME: 0.07, PLE: 0.08, PME–PME: 0.12. Carapace, sternum, labium, chelicerae and maxillae brown; carapace with irregular patterns. Chelicera with one tooth. Legs yellowish brown. Abdomen dorsally black, grayish ventrally. Spinnerets pale, uniform in color. Measurements of legs: I: 5.52 (1.50, 0.47, 1.23, 1.42, 0.90), II: 4.91 (1.15, 0.50, 1.11, 1.30, 0.85), III: 4.62 (1.10, 0.45, 0.94, 1.43, 0.70), Fe IV: 1.80, rest of the segments missing.
Palp as in Figs 20I–K, 24A, B. RTA long and conical, with a small projection apically; tegulum with posterior process (Tp); ventral apophysis relatively large and conical; median apophysis wider than long, with a large bifurcated outgrowth prolaterally; embolus broad basally, originating at about the 7 o’clock position; embolus proper thin and steadily curving.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution
Known only from the type locality in Kermanshah Province, western Iran (Fig. 33).
Original Description
- Zamani, A; Marusik, Y; 2021: Revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Iran and Turkmenistan, with seventeen new species ZooKeys, 1035: 145-193. doi
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