Acanthinozodium masa, Zamani & Marusik, 2021

Zamani, Alireza & Marusik, Yuri M., 2021, Revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Iran and Turkmenistan, with seventeen new species, ZooKeys 1035, pp. 145-193 : 145

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1035.65767
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scientific name	Acanthinozodium masa
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Acanthinozodium masa View in CoL sp. nov. Figs 18L View Figure 18 , 20I-K View Figure 20 , 24A, B View Figure 24 , 33 View Figure 33

Type material.

Holotype ♂ and paratype ♂ (MHNG), Iran: Kermanshah Province: Mahi Dasht, 34°14'N, 46°42'E, 29.06.1974 (A. Senglet).

Etymology.

The specific epithet is a Kurdish feminine name, meaning "bright like the moon". Noun in apposition.

Diagnosis.

The new species is very similar to A. diara sp. nov. by the shape of the RTA, the ventral tibial apophysis and the curvature of the embolus but differs by the shape of the median apophysis (cf. Fig. 20D View Figure 20 and 20J View Figure 20 ) and the conductor lacking a small retrolateral indentation apically (vs. present).

Description.

Male (holotype). Habitus as in Fig. 18L View Figure 18 . Total length 3.05. Carapace 1.47 long, 0.66 wide at pars cephalica, 1.10 wide at pars thoracica. Eye sizes and interdistance of PMEs: AME: 0.12, ALE: 0.10, PME: 0.07, PLE: 0.08, PME-PME: 0.12. Carapace, sternum, labium, chelicerae and maxillae brown; carapace with irregular patterns. Chelicera with one tooth. Legs yellowish brown. Abdomen dorsally black, grayish ventrally. Spinnerets pale, uniform in color. Measurements of legs: I: 5.52 (1.50, 0.47, 1.23, 1.42, 0.90), II: 4.91 (1.15, 0.50, 1.11, 1.30, 0.85), III: 4.62 (1.10, 0.45, 0.94, 1.43, 0.70), Fe IV: 1.80, rest of the segments missing.

Palp as in Figs 20I-K View Figure 20 , 24A, B View Figure 24 . RTA long and conical, with a small projection apically; tegulum with posterior process (Tp); ventral apophysis relatively large and conical; median apophysis wider than long, with a large bifurcated outgrowth prolaterally; embolus broad basally, originating at about the 7 o’clock position; embolus proper thin and steadily curving.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution.

Known only from the type locality in Kermanshah Province, western Iran (Fig. 33 View Figure 33 ).