Marinarozelotes malkini ( Platnick & Murphy, 1984 )

Seropian, Armen, Ninua, Levan, Rostiashvili, Ioane, Bulbulashvili, Natalia & Makharadze, Giorgi, 2025, New data on spiders (Arthropoda, Arachnida, Araneae) of Georgia with description of a new species from Tegenaria lyncea group, Caucasiana 4, pp. 65-80 : 65-80

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/caucasiana.4.e151922
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AEFF1C1E-560F-4676-931D-B2B393C9792C
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17106164
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/78064B86-B290-5BB7-B241-0F88BDC07B2E
treatment provided by	Caucasiana by Pensoft
scientific name	Marinarozelotes malkini ( Platnick & Murphy, 1984 )
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Marinarozelotes malkini ( Platnick & Murphy, 1984) View in CoL

Figs 20–21 View Figure 18–21

Trachyzelotes malkini View in CoL : Platnick and Murphy 1984: 22, figs 51–54 ( ♂ ♀).

Marinarozelotes malkini View in CoL : Ponomarev and Shmatko 2020: 135, figs 14–15, 19, 25–26, 43–44 ( ♂ ♀).

Material examined.

GEORGIA • 2 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀; Tbilisi, Lisi Lake vicinity ; 41.7489°N, 44.7326°E; 632 m a. s. l.; steppe, under stones; leg. G. Makharadze; 8 Jun. 2025; CaBOL-IDs 1039377, 1039378, 1039373, 1039374, 1039375, 1039376 GoogleMaps . • 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀; Kvemo Kartli, Rustavi Car Market ; 41.5778°N, 44.9422°E; 333 m a. s. l.; steppe, under stones; leg. G. Makharadze; 14 Jun. 2025 GoogleMaps .

Comments.

This species is distributed from the E Mediterranean east to W Kazakhstan ( Nentwig et al. 2025). In the Caucasus region, it was mainly recorded in N Caucasus with a single report from S Caucasus in the Samachablo region of Georgia ( Ponomarev and Shmatko 2020). It is the second and the southernmost record of M. malkini in the S Caucasus.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Araneae
Family	Gnaphosidae
Genus	Marinarozelotes