Dysdera pococki Dunin, 1985

Zamani, Alireza, Marusik, Yuri M. & Szűts, Tamas, 2023, A survey of the spider genus Dysdera Latreille, 1804 (Araneae, Dysderidae) in Iran, with fourteen new species and notes on two fossil genera, ZooKeys 1146, pp. 43-86 : 43

Dysdera pococki Dunin, 1985

Dysdera concinna : Pocock 1889: 112 (misidentified as per Deeleman-Reinhold and Deeleman 1988: 236).

Dysdera pococki Dunin 1985: 114, figs 1, 2 (♂).

Comments.

The Iranian record of this species is doubtful. Dunin (1985) described D. pococki on the basis of a male specimen from Turkmenistan, and the female of the species remains undescribed. Without providing any illustrations, Pocock (1889) reported a single female specimen from northeastern Iran which he tentatively identified as D. concinna L. Koch, 1878; this record was later attributed to D. pococki by Deeleman-Reinhold and Deeleman (1988), due to their close collection localities and without an examination of the Iranian material. This matter should be revisited once the female of D. pococki is described and the specimen reported by Pocock from Iran is studied and illustrated.

Records in Iran.

Razavi Khorasan ( Pocock 1889) (Fig. 35 ).

Distribution.

Iran, Turkmenistan.

Figures

Figure 35. Distribution records of Dysdera spp. in Iran 1 D. achaemenes sp. nov. 2 D. bakhtiari sp. nov. 3 D. hormuzensis sp. nov. 4 D. iranica sp. nov. 5 D. isfahanica sp. nov. 6 D. mazeruni sp. nov. 7 D. persica sp. nov. 8 D. pococki 9 D. sagartia sp. nov. and D. medes sp. nov. 10 D. verkana sp. nov. 11 D. xerxesi sp. nov. 12 D. damavandica sp. nov. 13 D. tapuria sp. nov. 14 D. genoensis sp. nov.