Nurscia albomaculata Lucas, 1846

Hosseini, Mojtaba, Mirshamsi, Omid, Kashefi, Roya & Fekrat, Lida, 2014, A contribution to the knowledge of spiders in wheat fields of Khorasan-e-Razavi Province Iran, Turkish Journal of Zoology 38 (4), pp. 437-443 : 441-442

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Nurscia albomaculata Lucas, 1846 View in CoL

Material examined: 7♂, 3♀ ( ZMFUM), Khorasan-e-Razavi Prov. , Torbate Heydarieh, (35°46′54″N 59°22′25″E), 3. GoogleMaps V.2012, M. Hosseini; 5♂, 2♀ ( ZMFUM), Khorasan-e-Razavi Prov. , Neishabour (36.2133°N, 58.7958°E), 3. GoogleMaps V.2012, M. Hosseini.

Distribution in Iran: Tehran ( Ghavami, 2006; Kashefi et al., 2013).

General distribution: Europe, Egypt to Central Asia ( Platnick, 2013).

Diagnosis: Body length 10–11 mm in males and 6–11 mm in females; epigyne strongly sclerotized with visible copulatory openings; carapace red-brown to black-brown; legs red-brown; abdomen black-brownish red, dorsally with 4–6 pairs of small, white spots.

Family Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

In order to key species of Theridiids to genus, specimens of both sexes are necessary ( Levi and Levi, 1962).

Genus Enoplognatha Pavesi, 1880

Diagnosis: In this genus, median apophysis large, paracymbium on cymbium margin; chelicerata of male enlarged, sclerotized; usually dark in color and abdomen with a dorsal pattern ( Levi and Levi, 1962).

Enoplognatha sp.

Material examined: 2♀ ( ZMFUM), Khorasan-e-Razavi Prov. , Torbat-e Heydarieh, (35°46′54″N, 59°22′25″E), 3.V.2012, M. Hosseini GoogleMaps .

Family Thomisidae Sundevall, 1833

Genus Xysticus C.L. Koch, 1835

Xysticus rectilineus (O.P.-Cambridge, 1872)

Material examined: 2♀ ( ZMFUM), Khorasan-e-Razavi Prov. , Mashhad (36°18′N, 59°36′E), 30.IV.2011, M. Hosseini GoogleMaps .

Distribution in Iran: Previously recorded from Khorasan Province ( Mirshamsi, 2005).

General distribution: Syria, Lebanon, Israel ( Platnick, 2013).

Diagnosis: Ventral part of tibia I at least with 4 pairs of spines; opisthosoma mostly with distinct dark pattern.

Family Zodariidae Thorell, 1881

Genus Parazodarion Ovtchinnikov, Ahmad & Gurko, 2009

Parazodarion raddei (Simon, 1889)

Material examined: 3♂, 1♀ ( ZMFUM), Khorasan-e-Razavi Prov. , Mashhad (36°18′N, 59°36′E), 12.V.2012, R. Kashefi; 2♂ ( ZMFUM), Khorasan-e-Razavi Prov., Mashhad (36°18′N, 59°36′E), 12.V.2012, M. Hosseini; Neishabour (36.2133°N, 58.7958°E), 14.V.2011, M. Hosseini GoogleMaps .

Distribution in Iran: Qom, West Azerbaijan, and Yazd provinces ( Ovchinnikov et al., 2009).

General distribution: Central Asia ( Platnick, 2013).

Diagnosis: Carapace and cephalic area dark; femora nearly brown; tibia, metatarsi and tarsi almost yellowishgray; dorsal part of abdomen black, ventral part dark reddish-brown; epigyne with 2 wide semicircular openings.