Nurcan Demircan Aksan

Bayburt University · Vocational school of Health services

A new species of the genus Cataleptoneta Denis, 1955, Cataleptoneta aydintopcui sp. n., is described from a cave in southern Turkey on the basis of both sexes. Differences between the new species and related species are discussed. Drawing of characteristic features, the male palpal organ and the female genitalia are presented.

Lathys spasskyi Andreeva & Tyschchenko, 1969 is identified as a new record for the Turkish araneofauna. Its morphology is briefly described and illustrated.

Salticus propinquus Lucas, 1846 is identified as a new record for the Turkish araneofauna. Its morphology is briefly described and illustrated.

Pholcus crassipalpis Spassky, 1937 is identified as a new record for the Turkish araneofauna. Its morphology is briefly described and illustrated.

Eratigena fuesslini (Pavesi, 1873) and Tegenaria achaea Brignoli, 1977 are identified as new records for the Turkish araneo-fauna. Their morphology is briefly described and illustrated.

Aelurillus aeruginosus (Simon, 1871) is identified as a new record for the Turkish araneofauna. Its morphology is briefly described and illustrated.

A new species of Hoplopholcus Kulczyński, 1908 is described from caves in Tekirdağ and Kırklareli provinces of Turkey on the basis of both sexes. A morphological description and diagnosis are presented together with figures of the habitus and copulatory organs.

Aelurillus guecki Metzner, 1999 is identified as a new record for the Turkish araneo fauna. It’s morphology is briefly described and illustrated.

Spider specimens collected from different parts of European Turkey were studied. Ninety-two species are recorded for the first time from European part of Turkey. Porrhomma convexum (Westring, 1851) is a new record for Turkey. The list of localities, coordinates and collection dates of first records were given and first records were summarized as a...

A new species of Chaetopelma Ausserer, 1871 is described from Hatay province, Turkey. Differences between the new species and related species are discussed. The characteristic features of this species are described and illustrated.http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:99C21605-5308-4363-8420-02F6151B4457

The spider family Linyphiidae comprises 104 species in Turkey that of them eight species are known from the caves, we recently started to conduct intensive taxonomic and faunistic studies on this family. The genus Troglohyphantes was described in 1882 by Joseph as a cave spider from Carniola in western Slovenia. Members of this genus inhabited cave...

In this study, Opopaea punctata (O.P.-Cambridge, 1872) and Silhouettella loricatula (Roewer, 1942) of family Oonopidae are recorded from Turkey for the first time. Silhouettella osmaniye Wunderlich, 2011 was collected again from Turkey. The characteristic features of these species are described and illustrated.

Demircan, N. & Topçu, A. pp. 135-140. - New records of family Lycosidae (Araneae) in Turkey. Arctosa maculata (Hahn, 1822), A. stigmosa (Thorell, 1875), Pardosa aenigmatica Tongiorgi, 1966, P. blanda (C.L. Koch, 1833), P. mixta (Kulczyński, 1887), P. saltans Töpfer-Hofmann, 2000, and Pirata insularis Emerton, 1885 are identified as new records for...