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On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia

Abstract. New taxonomic data for species belonging to Araniella Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 and Neoscona Simon, 1864 occurring in the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia are provided. Three species are described as new to science: A. mithrasp. nov. (♂♀, northwestern, central and southwestern Iran...

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Autores principales: Zamani, Alireza, Marusik, Yuri M., Šestáková, Anna
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6989643/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32021555
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.906.47978
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author Zamani, Alireza
Marusik, Yuri M.
Šestáková, Anna
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description Abstract. New taxonomic data for species belonging to Araniella Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 and Neoscona Simon, 1864 occurring in the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia are provided. Three species are described as new to science: A. mithrasp. nov. (♂♀, northwestern, central and southwestern Iran), A. villaniisp. nov. (♂♀, southwestern Iran, eastern Kazakhstan and northern India) and N. isatissp. nov. (♂♀, central Iran). Neoscona spasskyi (Brignoli, 1983) comb. nov., stat. res. is removed from the synonymy of N. tedgenica (Bakhvalov, 1978), redescribed and recorded from Iran and Turkmenistan for the first time. New combinations are established for this species, as well as for Araniella nigromaculata (Schenkel, 1963) comb. nov. (♀, north-central China) (both ex. Araneus). Two new synonymies are proposed: Araniella tbilisiensis Mcheidze, 1997 syn. nov. is synonymized with A. opisthographa (Kulczyński, 1905), and Neoscona sodom Levy, 1998 syn. nov. is synonymized with N. theisi (Walckenaer, 1841); the latter is recorded from Iran, Georgia, and Russia (Northern Caucasus) for the first time.
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spelling pubmed-69896432020-02-04 On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia Zamani, Alireza Marusik, Yuri M. Šestáková, Anna Zookeys Research Article Abstract. New taxonomic data for species belonging to Araniella Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 and Neoscona Simon, 1864 occurring in the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia are provided. Three species are described as new to science: A. mithrasp. nov. (♂♀, northwestern, central and southwestern Iran), A. villaniisp. nov. (♂♀, southwestern Iran, eastern Kazakhstan and northern India) and N. isatissp. nov. (♂♀, central Iran). Neoscona spasskyi (Brignoli, 1983) comb. nov., stat. res. is removed from the synonymy of N. tedgenica (Bakhvalov, 1978), redescribed and recorded from Iran and Turkmenistan for the first time. New combinations are established for this species, as well as for Araniella nigromaculata (Schenkel, 1963) comb. nov. (♀, north-central China) (both ex. Araneus). Two new synonymies are proposed: Araniella tbilisiensis Mcheidze, 1997 syn. nov. is synonymized with A. opisthographa (Kulczyński, 1905), and Neoscona sodom Levy, 1998 syn. nov. is synonymized with N. theisi (Walckenaer, 1841); the latter is recorded from Iran, Georgia, and Russia (Northern Caucasus) for the first time. Pensoft Publishers 2020-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6989643/ /pubmed/32021555 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.906.47978 Text en Alireza Zamani, Yuri M. Marusik, Anna Šestáková 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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Šestáková, Anna
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title On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia
title_full On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia
title_fullStr On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia
title_full_unstemmed On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia
title_short On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia
title_sort on araniella and neoscona (araneae, araneidae) of the caucasus, middle east and central asia
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6989643/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32021555
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.906.47978
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