First record of the spider genus Hellamalthonica Bosmans, 2023 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Turkiye, with the description of a new species

Authors: Gündüz, Gökhan Country: Turkey DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e157512 Published: Jan. 1, 2025 Source: Biodiversity Data Journal OpenAlex: View in OpenAlex

Collection: Pensoft Publishers

Keywords: Ageleninae · Topics: Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies, Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy, Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography

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The spider genus Hellamalthonica Bosmans, 2023 of the family Agelenidae currently contains five species and all species are known from Greece. This genus has not been recorded in Turkiye yet.A new species, Hellamalthonica kazdagensis sp. nov., is described (♂♀) from Mount Kaz Dağı, Balıkesir Province, Turkiye. This is also the first report of Hellamalthonica in Turkiye. Morphological descriptions, photomicroscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) images of the new species, a key to all species of the genus and a distribution map of Hellamalthonica species are given.

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