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Issue: Vol. 2362 No. 1: 18 Feb. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-02-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2362.1.2
Page range: 44–54
Abstract views: 46
PDF downloaded: 1

Revision of the genus Berinda (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in the East Mediterranean with the description of two new species

Natural History Museum of the University of Crete, Knossou Av., 71409 Irakleio, Crete, Greece, Po BOX 2208
Natural History Museum of the University of Crete, Knossou Av., 71409 Irakleio, Crete, Greece, Po BOX 2208
Niğde University, Faculty of Science and Arts, Departmentof Biology, TR-51200 Niğde , Turkey
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Democritus University of Thrace, Dragana, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece
Araneae ground spiders taxonomy zelotines Greece Cyprus Turkey Kayseri Aegean Crete

Abstract

Berinda is a small genus of the family Gnaphosidae (Araneae) known only from the East Mediterranean. Up to now three species were known, namely B. amabilis Roewer, 1928, B. ensigera (O.P.-Cambridge, 1874), and B. aegilia Chatzaki, 2002, all recorded from the Greek islands (B. amabilis is also recorded from Uzbekistan and Turkey) and the mainland (B. ensigera). In this paper we revise the genus adding new records of the previously recorded species and a new synonymy for B. ensigera (Haplodrassus grazianoi Caporiacco, 1948) and describe two new species, one found on the island of Cyprus, B. cypria Chatzaki & Panayiotou n.sp., and one found in Kayseri, Central Anatolia, Turkey, B. hakani Chatzaki & Seyyar n.sp., thus leading to a total of five species included in this genus.

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