Taxonomic notes on two sibling species of Metellina from Asia (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)

Abstract. Two sibling species, Metellina orientalis (Spassky, 1932) and M. kirgisica (Bakhvalov, 1974), occurring in the Middle East and Central Asia are redescribed and their distributions mapped. The previously unknown male of M. kirgisica is described for the first time. Stridulatory files on mal...

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Autores principales: Özkütük, Recep Sulhi, Marusik, Yuri M., Kunt, Kadir Boğaç, Elverici, Mert
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Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5673836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29134007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.695.13611
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author Özkütük, Recep Sulhi
Marusik, Yuri M.
Kunt, Kadir Boğaç
Elverici, Mert
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description Abstract. Two sibling species, Metellina orientalis (Spassky, 1932) and M. kirgisica (Bakhvalov, 1974), occurring in the Middle East and Central Asia are redescribed and their distributions mapped. The previously unknown male of M. kirgisica is described for the first time. Stridulatory files on male chelicera of Metellina are also documented for the first time. The occurrence of M. kirgisica in Azerbaijan and Tajikistan and the presence of M. orientalis in Turkey are confirmed.
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spelling pubmed-56738362017-11-13 Taxonomic notes on two sibling species of Metellina from Asia (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) Özkütük, Recep Sulhi Marusik, Yuri M. Kunt, Kadir Boğaç Elverici, Mert Zookeys Research Article Abstract. Two sibling species, Metellina orientalis (Spassky, 1932) and M. kirgisica (Bakhvalov, 1974), occurring in the Middle East and Central Asia are redescribed and their distributions mapped. The previously unknown male of M. kirgisica is described for the first time. Stridulatory files on male chelicera of Metellina are also documented for the first time. The occurrence of M. kirgisica in Azerbaijan and Tajikistan and the presence of M. orientalis in Turkey are confirmed. Pensoft Publishers 2017-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5673836/ /pubmed/29134007 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.695.13611 Text en Recep Sulhi Özkütük, Yuri M. Marusik, Kadir Boğaç Kunt, Mert Elverici http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Özkütük, Recep Sulhi
Marusik, Yuri M.
Kunt, Kadir Boğaç
Elverici, Mert
Taxonomic notes on two sibling species of Metellina from Asia (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)
title Taxonomic notes on two sibling species of Metellina from Asia (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)
title_full Taxonomic notes on two sibling species of Metellina from Asia (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)
title_fullStr Taxonomic notes on two sibling species of Metellina from Asia (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)
title_full_unstemmed Taxonomic notes on two sibling species of Metellina from Asia (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)
title_short Taxonomic notes on two sibling species of Metellina from Asia (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)
title_sort taxonomic notes on two sibling species of metellina from asia (araneae, tetragnathidae)
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5673836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29134007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.695.13611
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