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Issue: Vol. 4938 No. 5: 3 Mar. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-03-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.5.6
Page range: 588–594
Abstract views: 88
PDF downloaded: 12

Description of Dysdera zonsteini n. sp. (Arachnida: Araneae: Dysderidae) from Turkmenistan

Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Araneae Taxonomy Kopet Dagh new species woodlouse spiders

Abstract

A new species of Dysdera Latreille, 1804 is described from the South-Western Kopet Dagh, Turkmenistan, on the basis of both sexes. The species is compared to its closest congener Dysdera kronebergi Dunin, 1992, and tentatively assigned to the D. asiatica species-group.

 

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