First record of Ischnocolus Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Turkey June 2026

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  First record of Ischnocolus Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Turkey June 2026 Abstract Ischnocolus valentinus (Dufour, 1820) is recorded from Muğla Province in western Turkey based on a male deposited in the Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum. This also constitutes the first record of the genus Ischnocolus from Turkey.  Geci, Donard & Kunt, Kadir & Yağmur, Ersen & Sherwood, Danniella. (2026). First record of Ischnocolus Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Turkey. 23. 344-349. 10.15298/invertzool.23.2.10.  ResearchGate Acknowledgement: My sincere thanks, as always, to Danni Sherwood for sharing this manuscript. I am deeply grateful for your friendship, support, and willingness to keep me informed of new developments in the field.

Spiniculosa, a new wolf spider genus (Araneae, Lycosidae) from Africa, with description of a new species from the coast of Kenya

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Spiniculosa, a new wolf spider genus (Araneae, Lycosidae) from Africa, with description of a new species from the coast of Kenya

Abstract

Spiniculosa gen. nov. is proposed for two wolf spider species from the Afrotropical Region. One of them was formerly placed in the genus Pardosa, viz. Spiniculosa crassipalpis (Purcell) comb. nov., while the other, S. albida sp. nov., is newly described. These species share traits in the morphology of the male copulatory organs, as well as the males having a row of short spine-like setae proventrally on the first leg coxa and trochanter respectively. Spiniculosa crassipalpis (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, DR Congo, Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia) is redescribed and illustrated, the male palp illustrated for the first time. It is here synonymized with Pardosa upembensis (Roewer, 1959) syn. nov. Spiniculosa albida sp. nov., remarkable for its whitish body coloration, is described on material from a seashore with white sand in Kenya.

Kronestedt, T. (2025) Spiniculosa, a new wolf spider genus (Araneae, Lycosidae) from Africa, with description of a new species from the coast of Kenya. Zootaxa, 5666 (2), 211–224. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5666.2.4