Zodarion milani Shafaie & Pekár, 2025

Shafaie, Sepideh, 2025, New data on zodariid spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean, European Journal of Taxonomy 1016, pp. 1-139 : 98-100

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1016.3063
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Zodarion milani Shafaie & Pekár
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Zodarion milani Shafaie & Pekár sp. nov.

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Figs 76–77 View Fig View Fig , 106 View Fig

Diagnosis

Males of this new species are similar to those of Z. rhodiense in body size and the coloration of the prosoma and legs, but they can be distinguished by their flattened embolar tip and the spine-like appendix ( Fig. 77G View Fig vs Fig. 92F View Fig ).

Etymology

The species is named after our colleague, Milan Řezáč, who collected the specimens.

Type material

Holotype

SYRIA • ♂; Mashta Al-Helu; 3 Apr. 2001; M. Řezáč leg.; NMP P6A 7509 View Materials .

Other material examined

SYRIA • 1 ♂; Al-Qadmus, Al-Kahf Castle; 5 Apr. 2001; M. Řezáč leg.; CMU .

Description

Male ( holotype NMP P6A 7509)

HABITUS ( Fig. 76A–B View Fig ). Carapace and chelicerae brown; chelicerae with a longitudinal black stripe. Sternum and mouthparts brownish. Cx greyish, black distally; Fe black, with two pairs of longitudinal yellow stripes; Pa I, Ti I–III, Mt and Ta I–IV pale. Pa II–IV and Ti IV pale ventrally and dark laterally. Palpal femur black, with two pairs of orange stripes, patella and tibia pale ventrally and dark laterally, and cymbium brown, with yellow tip. Abdomen dorsum black, with an oval scutum, venter black except for brownish epiandrous; PVS present. Spinnerets black basally and pale apically.

MEASUREMENTS. Total length 4.55; carapace 2.34 long, 1.58 wide. Clypeus 0.26 high. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.15, ALE= PME 0.1, PLE 0.08, AME–AME 0.06, AME–ALE 0.01, ALE–ALE 0.4, AME–PME 0.07, PME–PME 0.45, PME–PLE 0.1, PLE–PLE 0.27, ALE–PLE 0.2. Legs: I 7.77 (1.98, 0.72, 1.65, 2.14, 1.28), II 7 (1.91, 0.72, 1.38, 1.94, 1.05), III 7.01 (1.91, 0.69, 1.28, 2.14, 0.99), IV 9.64 (2.70, 0.75, 2.24, 2.8, 1.15). Palp: 2.37 (0.85, 0.39, 0.16, 0.95).

PALP ( Fig. 77A–G View Fig ). RTA broad, with a claw-shaped extension. Median apophysis rectangular, with a beak-shaped PMA, companied by a blunt prolateral extension. Embolus with a flattened embolar tip accompanied by a lateral spine-like appendix.

Female

Unknown.

Size variation

Total body length 4.55–4.57, carapace length/width 2.34–2.35/1.58– 1 in males (N= 2).

Distribution

At present, known only from the type locality in Syria.