Amaurobius pallidus L. Koch, 1868

Marjan Komnenov, Eva Pitta, Konstantina Zografou & Maria Chatzaki, 2016, Discovering the still unexplored arachnofauna of the National Park of Dadia-Lefkimi-Soufli, NE Greece: a taxonomic review with description of new species, Zootaxa 4096 (1), pp. 1-66 : 35

Amaurobius pallidus L. Koch, 1868

( Figs 68–74 )

Material examined. Site 2 (b: 1 ♂; e: 1 ♂; f: 1 ♂), Site 3 (b: 3 ♂, 2 ♀; c: 1 ♂, d: 4 ♂; e: 4 ♂; f: 7 ♀), Site 4 (a: 14 ♂; b: 1 ♀), Site 7 (a: 3 ♂, 2 ♀), Site 11 (a: 24 ♂, 2 ♀), Site 13 (a: 1 ♂).

Distribution. Hungary ( Loksa, 1969); Romania ( Koch, 1868); Moldova ( Sekirova, 1988); southern part of European Russia ( Ponomarev & Volkova, 2013); Georgia (Mcheidze, 1997); NE-Bulgaria ( Thaler & Knoflach, 1993); Serbia ( Stojićević, 1929); Croatia ( Nikolić & Polenec, 1981); F. Y. Republic of Macedonia ( Drensky, 1929); Greece ( Drensky, 1928). There is one dubious record from S-Italy by Pesarini (1994) far away from the known range of the species distribution. As this species has never been found in Italy in recent studies, it is very likely that the old record from S-Italy is based on misidentification (Francesco Ballarin, personal communication). C horotype. Pontic.

Figures

FIGURES 68 – 74. Amaurobius pallidus L. Koch, 1868. 68 male palp, retrolateral view; 69 same, ventral view; 70 same, prolateral view; 71 same, dorsal view; 72 epigyne, ventral view; 73 vulva, dorsal view; 74 epigyne, aboral view. Scale bars: 0.5 mm (63 – 65); 0.1 mm (66 – 69).