Agroeca parva Bosmans, 2011

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Agroeca parva Bosmans, 2011 ( Figures 2a‒f )

Agroeca parva Bosmans, 2011: 19, f. 11‒14 (♂♀)

Material. ISRAEL: Mt. Carmel, 2.5 km S Haifa, 32°45’N 35°02’E, 500 m, 7.x.2014 (SZ) – 1 ♀ ( TAU) ; Upper Galilee, N Slope of Mt. Meron , 33°00’N 35°24.05’E 1100 m, forest litter, 27.x.2013 ( SZ) ‒ 4♂ 1♀ ( TAU) ; Ziv’on, 773 m recent woodland 33°02’N 35°25’ E, 16.iv.2005 (A. Timm & T. Assmann) ‒ 1♀ ( TAU) ; Carmel Ridge, Shuni Park 1 km N Binyamina , 32°32’N 34°57’E, 60 m, 27.xii.2010 ( YM) ‒ 1♀ ( ZMMU ). Comments. This species is known by the original description from Lesbos. Females of A. parva are nearly indistinguishable from A. inopinata O. P.-Cambridge, 1886; howev- er, the males are easily distinguished by the large tibial apophysis and the shape of the tegular apophysis ( Figs 2b‒c ).

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Figure 2. Habitus and copulatory organs of Agroeca parva (a ‒ f), Pardosa aenigmatica (g, from Azerbaijan) and Hogna ferox (h ‒ i, holotype of Tarentula iaffa). Scale = 0.2 mm if not otherwise indicated. – a. male habitus, dorsal; b ‒ c. male palp, ventral and retrolateral; d, i. female habitus, dorsal; e. epigyne, dorsal; f ‒ h. epigyne, ventral. Scale = 0.2 mm if not otherwise indicated.