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A new species Aelurillus khorasanicus sp.n. (♂♀) is described from north-east Iran. Aelurillus muganicus Dunin, 19845.
Dunin, P. M. (1984): Fauna and ecology of spiders (Aranei) of Apsheron Peninsula [in Russian]. pp. 45–60. In: Utochkin, A. S. et al. (eds.), Fauna i ekologiya paukoobraznykh. Perm: PGU Press.View all references is synonymised with...
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... concolor Kulczyyski, 1901: 319, 349, Tab. 13, Fig. 18 Figures 2-11. Habitus and palp of Aelurillus concolor (2-3 -holotype of Hemsenattus iranus; 4-5, 9-11 -male from Firyuza, Turkmenistan; 6-8 -paratype of A. muganicus). 2, 4, 6 -palp, ventral view; 3, 5, 7 -ditto, retrolateral; 8, 9 -dorsal, males; 10 -male's face; 11 -first leg, prolateral. Scales: 2-7 -0.1 mm, 8-9 -1 mm, 11 -0.5 mm. ...
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... This species is similar to A. conveniens (O.P.-Cambridge, 1872), but is dis- tinguished from it by the presence of dense white hairs on the clypeus and "cheeks" (Figure 10) and long and dense white hairs on male palpal femora ( Figures 26-27). Femur I of A. concolor possesses two bunches of dark brown hairs ventrally ( Figure 11), whereas that of A. conveniens is covered with white hairs. ...
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... species is similar to A. conveniens (O.P.-Cambridge, 1872), but is dis- tinguished from it by the presence of dense white hairs on the clypeus and "cheeks" (Figure 10) and long and dense white hairs on male palpal femora ( Figures 26-27). Femur I of A. concolor possesses two bunches of dark brown hairs ventrally ( Figure 11), whereas that of A. conveniens is covered with white hairs. Colouration: Carapace brown to dark brown, with black ocular area, covered with dark and white adpressed scales forming a broad white band, which is poorly marked in some specimens. ...
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... area with or without three white short stripes (Figures 8-9). Clypeus and "cheeks" dark brown, covered with white more or less dense hairs ( Figure 10). Sternum dark brown. ...
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... yellow to yellow- brown, with brown patches and semi-rings. Femora I and II with retrolateral brown patch and ventro-apical row of black bristles (Figure 11). Palps yellow. ...
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... femora without ventral knob, covered with long and dense white or yellow-white hairs ( Distribution. From Greece in the west to Kyrgyzstan on the east and Kerman Province, Iran on the south-east (Figure 1). Comments. ...
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Two Aelurillus species are described as new, Aelurillus
alboclypeus
sp. n. (♂♀, from Turkey) and Aelurillus
deltshevi
sp. n. (♂, from Macedonia, Bulgaria and Azerbaijan). Aelurillus
steliosi Dobroruka, 2002 is synonymized with Aelurillus
leipoldae (Metzner, 1999). Additional distributions of the closely related species Aelurillus
v-insignitus are provided for the region of study. Distributional maps are provided for the five species reported in this paper.
