Description of a new species of Zodarion Walckenaer (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Turkey

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  Description of a new species of Zodarion Walckenaer (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Turkey Introduction Zodariidae Thorell, commonly known as ant-eating spiders, is one of the most diverse spider families, comprising over 1300 species across 90 genera (World Spider Catalog  Citation 2026 ). Members of the family are distributed worldwide, mostly in tropical and subtropical regions (World Spider Catalog  Citation 2026 ). Within this large family, the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, is represented by 176 species (World Spider Catalog  Citation 2026 ). Currently, 157 Zodarion species are known from Europe (Nentwig et al .  Citation 2026 ). In Turkey, the family Zodariidae comprises 37 species in four genera. Most of them, 34 species, belong to the genus Zodarion (Danışman et al. ,  Citation 2025 ). Within the genus, eight species of the ‘ germanicum ’ species group are found in Turkey: Zodarion abantense Wunderlich, Z. bigaense Bosmans, Özkütük, Varlı, and Kunt, ...

On the first Subandean species of Myrmecium Latreille, 1824 (Araneae, Corinnidae) from the Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador

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On the first Subandean species of Myrmecium Latreille, 1824 (Araneae, Corinnidae) from the Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador 

The ant-mimicking spider genus Myrmecium Latreille, 1824, revised by Candiani & Bonaldo (2017), can be diagnosed from other Castianeirinae by the presence of three deep constrictions of the cephalothorax, the long and obliquely inserted pedicel, the sternum posterior margins projected between coxae IV, generally forming a T-shape, pleural sclerites between legs III and IV fused with the sternum and carapace, and coxae III and IV almost vertically oriented and separated by more than twice the width of coxa III (Candiani & Bonaldo 2017).

Peñaherrera-R., P., Guerrero-Molina, T. & Cisneros-Heredia, D. F. (2026). On the first Subandean species of Myrmecium Latreille, 1824 (Araneae, Corinnidae) from the Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador. Zootaxa 5810(1): 184-188. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5810.1.10