Zagrotes apophysalis Zamani & Chatzaki & Esyunin & Marusik 2021, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zamani, Alireza
name: Chatzaki, Maria
name: Esyunin, Sergei L.
name: Marusik, Yuri M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Gnaphosidae
Zagrotes
Zagrotes apophysalis

description: Zagrotes apophysalis sp. nov.
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Figs 24–26
Diagnosis
Same as for the genus.
Etymology
The specific epithet is an adjective and refers to the greatly enlarged retrolateral tibial apophysis of the male palp.
Type material
Holotype IRAN • ♂; Kohgiluyeh & Boyer-Ahmad Province, Seyyed Safi; May 2017; A. Hosseinpour leg.; MHNG.
Paratypes IRAN • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; MHNG • 1 ♀; Hormozgan Province, 75 km N of Bandar Abbas, Siahu; 27°33′ N, 55°38′ E; 16 Feb. 2018; A. Zamani leg.; MHNG.
Description
Male
Habitus as in Fig. 24A. Total length 4.29. Carapace 1.96 long, 1.38 wide. Eye sizes and interdistance of PMEs: AME = 0.09, ALE = 0.08, PME = 0.09, PLE = 0.07, PME–PME = 0.06. Carapace, chelicerae, maxillae, labium and sternum light brown. Legs the same color as carapace and without annulations. Chelicerae (Fig. 24E) with 5 pro- and 2 retromarginal teeth. Abdomen light grayish brown, without any pattern; scutum short, triangular, almost two times as wide as long. Spinnerets light grayish and uniform in color. Measurements of legs: I: 5.60 (1.48, 1.03, 1.23, 1.09, 0.77), II: 4.51 (1.16, 0.87, 0.95, 0.93, 0.60), III: 3.79 (1.06, 0.54, 0.74, 0.88, 0.57), IV: 6.00 (1.53, 0.90, 1.28, 1.52, 0.77).
Palp as in Figs 24C–D, 25. Femur 3 times as long as wide, slightly longer than patella+ tibia, or cymbium; patella modified, longer than tibia, with swollen proximal part; tibia modified, swollen retrolaterally, 2 times wider in the middle than in base, apophysis long, about 4 times as long as wide, deeply bifid, with ventral arm rounded on the tip and dorsal arm spine-like, sharply pointed; cymbium elongated, 2.3 times as long as wide, with cone-shaped tip; tegulum twice as long as wide, with large median apophysis, as long as bulb’s width, apophysis with 2 arms; spermophor U-shaped in ventral view; tegulum with membranous, finger-shaped apophysis near the base of embolus (not easily discernible); embolus filamentous, originating at the middle of the tegulum and encircling it, reaching the retrolateral margin of the cymbium.
Female (paratype, Kohgiluyeh & Boyer-Ahmad Province)
Habitus as in Fig. 24B. Total length 5.55. Carapace 2.14 long, 1.46 wide. Eye sizes and interdistance of PMEs: AME = 0.07, ALE = 0.09, PME = 0.09, PLE = 0.06, PME–PME = 0.06. Coloration and somatic features as in male. Measurements of legs: I: 5.87 (1.51, 1.10, 1.33, 1.08, 0.85), II: 4.61 (1.22, 0.76, 1.00, 0.93, 0.70), III: 4.24 (1.15, 0.64, 0.85, 0.94, 0.66), IV: 6.07 (1.58, 0.89, 1.28, 1.53, 0.79).
Epigyne as in Figs 24F–G, 26. Epigynal plate longer than wide; with distinct scape (Ds), basal part conical, goffered, tip heavily sclerotized, digitiform; posterior part of atrium with distinct margins and copulatory openings; copulatory ducts long, coiled and ending posteriorly in broad sacs.
Distribution
Known from the listed localities in Kohgiluyeh & Boyer-Ahmad and Hormozgan Provinces, southwestern and southern Iran.
description: Published as part of Zamani, Alireza, Chatzaki, Maria, Esyunin, Sergei L. & Marusik, Yuri M., 2021, One new genus and nineteen new species of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Iran, with other taxonomic considerations, pp. 68-114 in European Journal of Taxonomy 751 (1) on pages 106-109, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.751.1381, http://zenodo.org/record/4906007