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Type: Article
Published: 2013-12-03
Page range: 64–72
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Redescription of three species of Filistatidae (Araneae) described by C.F. Roewer from Afghanistan

Department of Zoology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, 69978 Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Institute for Biological Problems of the North RAS, Portovaya Str. 18, Magadan, Russia
Zoological Museum, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku Finland
Araneae spiders Filistatidae taxonomy redescription Afghanistan

Abstract

Types of three filistatid species described by Roewer (1960, 1962) from Afghanistan are redescribed and two of them transferred to other filistatid genera. The new combinations proposed are: Zaitunia afghana (Roewer 1962) comb. n. (ex. Filistata Latreille, 1810) and Tricalamus lindbergi (Roewer, 1962) comb. n. (ex. Pritha Lehtinen, 1967). The taxonomic position of Pholcoides afghana Roewer, 1960 is discussed and the species is placed in the filistatid subfamily Prithinae Gray, 1994.