Cryptodrassus liyanicus Zamani & Marusik, 2024

Zamani, Alireza, Esyunin, Sergei L., Mikhailov, Kirill G. & Marusik, Yuri M., 2024, New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part XI., Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10 (2), pp. 285-309 : 295

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.61186/jibs.10.2.285
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17026200
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scientific name	Cryptodrassus liyanicus Zamani & Marusik
status	sp. nov.

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Cryptodrassus liyanicus Zamani & Marusik View in CoL , sp. n. ( Fig. 6A–C)

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Type Material. Holotype ♀ ( ZMUT), IRAN: Bushehr Prov.: Asaluyeh, near Asaluyeh Airport , 27°28'N 52°36'E, 27.I.2016 ( A. Zamani). GoogleMaps

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to Liyan, an Elamite port on the Persian Gulf, located near the modern-day city of Bushehr, Iran.

Diagnosis. The new species is similar to C. hungaricus (Balogh, 1935) – known from France to Greece and Russia (Europe, Caucasus) – by having a uniformly light colored body and a similarly caret-shaped epigynal fovea, but differs by much larger size (6.4 vs. 1.9), as well as by having an epigynal scape ( Sc) ( vs. hood), converging anterior parts of the copulatory ducts ( vs. diverging), and the presence of accessorial glands ( Ag) ( vs. absent) (cf. Fig. 6A–C and Kovblyuk & Nadolny, 2010: figs 8, 10–13).

Description. Female ( Holotype). Habitus as in Fig. 6A. Total length 6.40. Carapace 2.67 long, 2.00 wide. Eye sizes: AME: 0.12, ALE: 0.11, PME: 0.11, PLE: 0.08. Carapace, chelicerae, maxillae, labium and sternum yellowish brown. Legs slightly lighter than carapace, without annulations. Chelicerae each with 5 pro- and 3 retromarginal teeth. Abdomen light beige, without any patterns. PMS pale, ALS and PLS light brown. Measurements of legs: I: 7.67 (2.14, 1.37, 1.72, 1.46, 0.98), II: 6.33 (1.81, 1.11, 1.36, 1.26, 0.79), III: 5.46 (1.56, 0.84, 1.05, 1.28, 0.73), IV: 7.98 (2.14, 1.19, 1.73, 2.01, 0.91).

Epigyne as in Fig. 6B–C; epigynal plate slightly longer than wide, with small, weakly sclerotized subtriangular scape ( Sc); fovea caret-shaped, posterior margin strongly protruding anteriorly; copulatory opening ( Co) located anteriorly on protrusion; copulatory ducts forming X-shaped figure; pair of elongate accessorial glands ( Ag) located at mid-part of copulatory ducts; receptacles globular, spaced by one radius.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality in Bushehr Province, southern Iran.