Agelescape Levy 1996
Creators: name: Zamani, Alireza
name: Marusik, Yuri M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Agelenidae
Agelescape

description: <i>Agelescape</i> Levy, 1996 <i>Agelescape</i> Levy 1996: 88; Guseinov, Marusik &amp; Koponen 2005: 155. <i>Type species</i>: <i>Agelena livida</i> Simon, 1875 by original designation. <i>Remarks</i>: <i>Agelescape</i> has only been taxonomically considered in the two publications mentioned above. Levy (1996: 88) diagnosed the genus as having an epigynal scape and by “the particular configuration of the male palpal sclerite”. Guseinov, Marusik &amp; Koponen (2005) mentioned a character that allowed the separation of <i>Agelescape</i> from <i>Agelena</i>: the number of retrolateral tibial apophyses, one in <i>Agelescape</i> and two in <i>Agelena</i>; however, both of these genera are poorly delimited and encompass species that are quite different from their generotypes. Additionally, comparison of <i>A. gideoni</i> Levy, 1996 and species occurring in the Caucasus to <i>A. livida</i>, the type species, revealed differences in the number of bulbal sclerites of the palps and the presence/absence of tubular ducts of the epigynes (Guseinov, Marusik &amp; Koponen 2005); however, these differences do not occur between <i>A. livida</i> and <i>A. afFnis</i>. Thus, we split <i>Agelescape</i> into two genera, with <i>A. livida</i> and <i>A. afFnis</i> remaining, and others placed in <i>Persiscape</i> gen. n. <i>Diagnosis</i>: Males of <i>Agelescape</i> differ from all other Old World Agelenini (except for <i>Benoitia</i> Lehtinen, 1967) by having a long, filamentous embolus (&gt; tegulum length), and a long (&gt; tegulum length), gradually tapering, straight conductor (<i>v</i>. embolus not filamentous, with a distinct base, and a twisted conductor) (Figs. 4 A–B, 5A–B, 6D). <i>Age- lescape</i> males differ from those of <i>Benoitia</i> by the straight conductor. Females differ from other Old World Agelenini by having distinct tubular ducts (<i>v</i>. absent in other genera) and lack of globular receptacles (<i>v</i>. present in other genera) (Fig. 8 D–E, G). <i>Remarks</i>: Levy (1996) indicated that <i>Agelescape</i> has 3–4 prolateral teeth and 2–4 retrolateral teeth on the chelicera. Based on our material, in the two species remaining in the genus there are 3 prolateral and 3–4 retrolateral teeth. <i>Included species</i>: <i>A. livida</i> and <i>A. afFnis</i>. <i>Distribution</i>: From the Iberian Peninsula to Israel (Fig. 15A).
description: Published as part of <i>Zamani, Alireza &amp; Marusik, Yuri M., 2020, A review of Agelenini (Araneae: Agelenidae: Ageleninae) of Iran and Tajikistan, with descriptions of four new genera, pp. 368-386 in Arachnology 18 (4)</i> on page 371, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.368, http://zenodo.org/record/3925217
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