Polenecia producta (Simon, 1873)

Caria, Michele, Pantini, Paolo, Alamanni, Federico, Ancona, Cesare, Cillo, Davide & Bazzato, Erika, 2021, New records and interesting data for the Sardinian spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae), Fragmenta entomologica 53 (2), pp. 321-332 : 328

Polenecia producta (Simon, 1873)

Material examined. QE15, 10.V-18.VII.2018, 1♀ ( ZFMK); QE17 , hand collecting, 5.VI.2018, 1♂ M. Caria leg. ( MCC) .

Distribution. Mediterranean to Azerbaijan.

Comments. Simon (1873) described this species and report- ed it in Corsica and Syria, but did not report the exact locations. Moreover, he did not directly collect the Syrian specimens, but they were sent to him by an acquaintance. In the Iberian Peninsula P. producta has been recorded a few times in both Spain ( Fernández Galiano 1910; Franganillo 1925; Barrientos et al. 1985; Crespo et al. 2018; Muñoz-Maciá 2019) and Portugal ( Cardoso 2004; Cardoso et al. 2008; Crespo et al. 2010) but the records are scarce. These records are mapped by de Biurrun et al. (2019), and other Iberian records are reported in GBIF (2021a). In Italy, it was recorded only once by Brignoli (1979a), who collected a male specimen from Bortigiadas (Sassari) in 1966. Therefore, this is the second record of this species in Italy. However, records in mainland Italy and Sicily are still lacking. In the same paper, the author reported it in Lebanon too. Finally, it was record- ed in Azerbaijan, where there are only three records ( Dunin 1988; Guseinov 1999). Other records of this species are also reported by GBIF (2021a) for Agadir ( Morocco).