Zaitunia martynovae Andreeva & Tyshchenko 1969
Creators: name: Sergei Zonstein
name: Yuri M. Marusik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Filistatidae
Zaitunia
Zaitunia martynovae

description: Zaitunia martynovae (Andreeva & Tyshchenko, 1969)
Figs 23–26, 43 F, 50F
Filistata martynovae Andreeva & Tyshchenko, 1969: 374, fig. 1 (♀).
Filistata martynovae – Andreeva 1976: 19, figs 13–14 (♀).
Zaitunia martynovae – Zonstein 1990: 50 (transfer from Filistata).
Diagnosis
By the structure of the bulb, Z. martynovae resembles Z. spinimana sp. nov., but differs from it and all other male congeners by the long and flattened corkscrew-shaped embolus (Figs 25 A–D, 43F). Females are easily distinguished from all other congeners due to their large and swollen median receptacles (Fig. 26).
Type material
Holotype
TAJIKISTAN: ♀, Sanglok Mts, Tutkaul Village, 10 Sep. 1966, E. Martynova (depository unknown, not examined).
Material examined (1 ♂, 37 ♀♀, 2 ♀♀ subad., 5 juvs)
TAJIKISTAN: 1 ♀, Aruktau Mts, surroundings of Gandzhina, 37°58' N, 68°34' E, 700–900 m, 19– 20 Apr. 1986, S. Zonstein (TAU); 1 ♀ subad., same data, but 13 Apr. 1987 (TAU); 3 ♀♀, same data, but 11 Apr. 1988 (TAU); 1 ♀, same data, but 19 Apr. 1989 (TAU); 1 ♂, 6 ♀♀, same data, but 21 Apr. 2015, S. Zonstein (TAU); 3 ♀♀, 2 ♀♀ subad., same data, but 37°57.7' N, 68°33.7' E, 716 m, 21 Apr. 2015, Y.M. Marusik (ZMMU); 2 ♀♀, Sanglok Mts, 1 km W of Khodzharki (= Sebiston), 38°15' N, 69°15' E (10 km SE of Tutkaul village), 1300 m, 18 May 2002, S. Zonstein (TAU); 2 ♀♀, Pyandzh Karatau Mts, surroundings of Mt. Astana, 37°23' N, 69°15' E, 1400–1600 m, 23 Apr. 1991, S. Zonstein (TAU); 7 ♀♀, 1 juv., same data, but 37°23.2' N, 69°14.8' E, 1674 m, 4 May 2015, Y.M. Marusik (ZMMU); 3 ♀♀, same data, but 37°22.8' N, 69°14.7' E, 1600 m, 4 May 2015, S. Zonstein (TAU); 1 ♀, 1 juv., foothills 8 km E of Pyandzh town, 37°14.7' N, 69°14.0' E, 464 m, 5 May 2015, Y.M. Marusik (ZMMU); 2 ♀♀, Khodzha-Mumin salt dome, 37°45.9' N, 69°38.6' E, 470 m, 25 Apr. 2015, S. Zonstein (TAU); 1 ♀, 2 juvs, same data, but Yu.M. Marusik (ZMMU); 1 ♀, 1 juv., Rangentau Mts, env. of Khurson, 38°10.7' N, 68°39.7' E, 724 m, clay cliff near road, 4 May 2015, Y.M. Marusik (ZMMU).
TURKMENISTAN: 3 ♀♀, Central Kopetdagh Mts, northern slope of Ulydepe Mts, 14 km W of Gektepe, 38º09'45" N, 57º47'05" E, 600 m, 1 Apr. 2002, A.V. Gromov (ZMMU).
Note
Tutkaul village, the type locality of Filistata martynovae Andreeva & Tyshchenko, is now covered by the water of the Nurek Reservoir.
Description
Male (Gandzhina)
HABITUS. See Fig. 24 A, C.
BODY LENGTH. 3.47.
COLOUR. Prosoma and legs pale greyish-brownish-yellow; eye tubercle brownish-black; diffuse and narrow median line light brown (but margins of carapace not darkened), abdomen dorsally light brownish with diffuse pattern of slightly darker narrow median line anteriorly and a few transverse fasciae posteriorly.
CARAPACE (Fig. 24 B, D). 1.52 long, 1.26 wide.
EYES (Fig. 25 E). AME 0.07, ALE 0.11, PLE 0.09, PME 0.08, AME–AME 0.08.
PALP (Figs 25 A–D, 43F). Relatively long and slender, 1.78 times longer than carapace; tibia 1.3 times wider than femur, dorso-distally with brush of strong setae; cymbium shorter than bulb; bulb sinuous in lateral view; spermophore sinuous in embolic neck; embolus longer than neck and equal in length to tegulum + neck, embolus bent twice.
LEG MEASUREMENTS. ♂(♀)
FemurPatellaTibiaMetatarsusTarsusTotalPalp1.07 (0.93)0.29 (0.36)1.01 (0.55)―0.34 (0.67)2.71 (2.51)I2.43 (1.95)0.57 (0.57)2.55 (1.89)2.46 (1.57)1.89 (1.18)9.90 (7.16)II1.94 (1.53)0.49 (0.51)1.76 (1.28)1.94 (1.17)1.28 (0.84)7.41 (5.33)III1.81 (1.26)0.51 (0.47)1.58 (0.97)1.79 (0.98)0.96 (0.76)6.65 (4.44)IV2.34 (1.76)0.48 (0.59)2.17 (1.41)2.43 (1.30)1.54 (0.86)8.96 (5.92)
Female (Gandzhina)
HABITUS. See Fig. 23 C, G.
BODY LENGTH. 4.35.
COLOUR. As in male but abdomen slightly darker dorsally, and ventrally with darker X-shaped spot in genital area.
CARAPACE (Fig. 23 I). 1.62 long, 1.29 wide.
EYES. AME 0.07, ALE 0.13, PLE 0.11, PME 0.09, AME–AME 0.06.
ENDOGYNE (Fig. 26 A–C). With large and wide conical median receptacles and small globular lateral receptacles; median receptacles with corrugated stem, their bases separated by less than the diameter of their heads, heads separated by 1.6 of their diameter; heads of both pairs densely covered with gland pores.
Variations
Carapace length in females varies from 1.50 to 1.75. Variation of coloration and structure of the endogyne in females from Tajikistan and Turkmenistan is shown in Figs 23 A–B, D–F, and 26D–O, respectively. The body and leg pattern, including the X-shaped spot in the female genital area, may be well-developed or indistinct.
Ecology
This species is found in different habitats from foothill steppes and shrubland to open Juniperus forest in the middle mountain belt. The spiders occur under stones (Fig. 50 B), and in crevices in clay escarps (Fig. 50 C) and rock outcrops (Fig. 50 D) where they build small webs below or near the cavity entrance (Fig. 50 E, a close-up view of such a web is also shown in Fig. 50 F).
Distribution
Tajikistan and Turkmenistan (Fig. 48).
description: Published as part of Sergei Zonstein & Yuri M. Marusik, 2016, A revision of the spider genus Zaitunia (Araneae, Filistatidae), pp. 1-97 in European Journal of Taxonomy 214 on pages 48-53, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.214, http://zenodo.org/record/269335