A New Uralophantes from the South Ukraine (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Ipaeinae)

Keywords: spiders, Uralophantes, new species, description

Abstract

A Linyphiidae spiders Uralophantes ponticus sp. n. from Southern Ukraine (Kherson, Luhansk Regions) and Russia (Penza Region), differing from U. troitskensis Esyunin, 1992 from the Southern Urals by the male palp parts and female epigynum, is described.

References

Azheganova, N.S. 1951. То the spider fauna of the Troitsky Forest-Steppe Reserve. Izvestija Yestestvenno -Nauchnogo Instituta pri Molotovskom Gosudarstvennom Universitete, 13 (2-3), 137-156.

Esyunin, S.L. 1992. Remarks on the Ural spider (Arachnida, Aranei) fauna. 2. A new genus and a new species of the family Linyphiidae. Zoologicheskij Zhurnal, 71 (12), 136-139.

Esyunin, S.L., Tuneva T.K. & Farzalieva G. S. 2007. Remarks on the Ural spider fauna (Arachnida, Aranei), 12. Spiders of the steppe zone of Orenburg Region. Arthropoda Selecta, 16, 43-63.

Hormiga, G. 2000. Higher Level Phylogenetics of Erigonine Spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 1-160. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.609

Merrett, P. 1963. The palpus of male spiders of the family Linyphiidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 140, 347-467. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1963.tb01867.x

Millidge, A.F. 1984 The taxonomy of the Linyphiidae, based chiefly on the epigynal and tracheal characters (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 6, 229-267.

Polchaninova, N.Yu. 2012. A checklist of spiders (Araneae) of the Chornomorskyi Biosphere Reserve (Ukraine). Pryrodnychyi almanakh. Biolohichni nauky, 18, 85-108.

Polchaninova, N.Yu. 2015. Recovery of spider communities after a spontaneous summer fire in the forb-bunchgrass steppe of eastern Ukraine. Hacquetia, 14 (1), 79-96. https://doi.org/10.1515/hacq-2015-0015

Polchaninova, N.Yu., Prokopenko, E.V. 2013. Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement, 2, 1-268.

Polchaninova, N.Yu., Prokopenko, E.V. 2017. Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Addendum 1. 2013 - 2016. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement, 4, 1-115.

Ponomarev, A.V., Prokopenko, E.V. & Shmatko, V.Yu. 2017. New and interesting records of spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from the southeastern part of the Russian Plain. Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society, 88 (1), 103-117. https://doi.org/10.47640/1605-7678_2017_88_1_103

Saaristo, M.I. 2007. A new subfamily of linyphiid spiders based on a new genus created for the keyserlingi-group of the genus Lepthyphantes (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta, 16, 33-42.

Saaristo, M.I., Tanasevitch., A.V. 1996. Redelimitation of the subfamily Micronetinae Hull, 1920 and the genus Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866 with descriptions of some new genera (Aranei, Linyphiidae). Berichte des naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck, 83, 163-186.

Published
2022-01-17
How to Cite
Gnelitsa, V. A. (2022). A New Uralophantes from the South Ukraine (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Ipaeinae). Zoodiversity, 56(1). https://doi.org/10.15407/zoo2022.01.021
Section
Fauna and Systematics