Hersiliola Thorell 1870
Creators: name: Marusik, Yuri
name: Kunt, Kadir
name: Yagmur, Ersen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hersiliidae
Hersiliola

description: Key to the <i>Hersiliola</i> species 1. Male.......................................................................................................... <b>2</b> – Female....................................................................................................... <b>7</b> 2. Embolus very long, with about 3.5 coils, embolic base at about 4 o’clock, tegular apophysis sharply pointed....................................... <b> <i>H. turcica</i> sp. n</b> – Embolus shorter, embolic base at different position.................................... <b>3</b> 3. Embolic base at about 12–12:30 o’clock.................................................... <b>4</b> – Embolic base at different position.............................................................. <b>5</b> 4. Embolus makes less than one coil, tegular apophysis blunt, tip of cymbium is about one radius of the tegulum................................................ <i>H. esyunini</i> – Embolus makes almost one coil, tegular apophysis not blunt, tip of cymbium is about one diameter of the tegulum..................................... <i>H. sternbergsi</i> 5. Tegular apophysis blunt..................................................... <i>H. xinjiangensis</i> – Tegular apophysis not blunt....................................................................... <b>6</b> 6. Embolic base at about 11 o’clock................................................. <i>H. simoni</i> – Embolic base at about 5:30 o’clock...................................... <i>H. macullulata</i> 7. Epigyne without distinct windows and/or without distinct median plate..... <b>8</b> – Epigyne with distinct windows and plate................................................... <b>9</b> 8. Median plate absent, receptacula round, insemination duct makes at least 7 coils.......................................................................................... <i>H. lindbergi</i> – Median plate present, receptacula oval, insemination duct makes only 1 coil.............................................................................................................. <i>H. foordi</i> 9. Insemination duct with 5 or more coils.................................................... <b>10</b> – Insemination duct with less than 5 coils................................................... <b>11</b> 10. Insemination duct with 7 coils........................................... <b> <i>H. turcica</i> sp. n.</b> – Insemination duct with 5–6 coils......................................... <i>H. macullulata</i> 11. Septum thinner than median plate height part of the median plate rounded.................................................................................................. <i>H. esyunini</i> <i>–</i> Septum wider than median plate height................................................... <b>12</b> 12. Size&gt; 5.5 mm.................................................................... <i>H. xinjiangensis</i> – Size &lt;5.5 mm.......................................................................................... <b>13</b> 13. Median plate triangle shaped................................................... <i>H. versicolor</i> – Median plate transversal........................................................................... <b>14</b> 14. Receptaculum droplet shaped.................................................................. <b>15</b> – Receptaculum with conical terminal outgrowth........................... <i>H. simoni</i> 15. Receptaculum thinner than window...................................... <i>H. sternbergsi</i> – Receptaculum wider than window.......................................... <i>H. afghanica</i>
description: Published as part of <i>Marusik, Yuri, Kunt, Kadir &amp; Yagmur, Ersen, 2010, A new species of Hersiliola Thorell, 1870 (Araneae, Hersiliidae) from Turkey, pp. 27-34 in ZooKeys 37 (37)</i> on page 33, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.37.398, http://zenodo.org/record/576623