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Issue: Vol. 2068 No. 1: 10 Apr. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-04-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2068.1.3
Page range: 47–58
Abstract views: 55
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Two new Tegenaria species (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Portugal

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Abteilung Biowissenschaften, Augustinergasse 2, CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland Department of Environmental Sciences, Section of Conservation Biology, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Vorstadt 10, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
IMAR – Coimbra Interdisciplinary Center, Department of Zoology, University of Coimbra, Largo Marques de Pombal, 3004-517 Coimbra, Porugal
Azorean Biodiversity Group (CITA-A), Universidade dos Açores, Terra-Chã, 9701-851 Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal Natural History Museum of Denmark, Zoological Museum and Centre for Macroecology, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Araneae Iberian Peninsula Malthonica new species Spain taxonomy

Abstract

The genera complex Tegenaria/Malthonica is a problematic spider group of the family Agelenidae. Besides taxonomical problems, new European species are described on a regular basis. Here two species from Portugal, Tegenaria barrientosi sp. n. and Tegenaria incognita sp. n., are described. Both species show a significant similarity to T. bucculenta, T. feminea and T. montigena, a species group restricted to the Iberian Peninsula. T. barrientosi sp. n. can be separated by the pyramidal shaped ventral branch of the conductor, the shape and arrangement of the RTA and the proportion of the bulblength to the cymbium-length, the run and shortness of the copulatory ducts with the diverticulae originating laterally and the irregularly sclerotized egg-shaped spermathecae, which are touching each other anteriorly. T. incognita sp. n. can be separated by the very broad lateral branch and the almost completely hidden lateroventral branch of the RTA, the shape of the conductor with the terminal end pointing towards posterior, the inwards directed epigynal teeth, the run and shortness of the copulatory ducts with the anteriorly originating diverticulae.

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