Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57

Arachnologische Mitteilungen / Arachnology Letters 57: 21-25 Karlsruhe, April 2019 Members of the spider genus Dysdera Latreille, 1804 are nocturnal ground foragers that are commonly found in leaf litter and primarily feed on terrestrial woodlice ( Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman 2006).The genus is represented by 260 extant species, mainly distributed in the West Palaearctic, with the exception of the Cosmopolitan Dysdera crocata C. L. Koch, 1838. The Italian arachnologist Pietro Pavesi firstly recorded the genus Dysdera from the İstanbul Province of Turkey (Pavesi 1876). The first significant contribution on the genus, howe- ver, was given by Nosek (1905), and included the descriptions of D. argaeica Nosek, 1905, D. asiatica Nosek, 1905 and D. longimandibularis Nosek, 1905. Until the work of Deeleman- Reinhold & Deeleman (1988), in which eight new species of Dysdera were described from Turkey, there were only scat- tered records. Today, the genus Dysdera is represented by 24 species in Turkey, most of which are local endemics (Demir & Seyyar 2017, Varol & Danışman 2018). Here we provide the first description of the female of D. sultani Deeleman-Reinhold, 1988, a species previously known only from males, and only from two localities in Turkey and Greece (Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman 1988). Additio- nally, we provide morphological information on the species. Material and methods Specimens were collected in the western central Anatolian region of Turkey using a litter reducer (sifter), pitfall traps and hand collection. Specimens were preserved in 70% etha- nol and deposited in the Zoology Museum of the Eskişehir Technical University. Digital images of the copulatory or- gans were obtained using a Leica DFC295 digital camera attached to a Leica S8AP0 stereomicroscope. Five to fifteen photographs were taken in different focal planes and com- bined using “CombineZP” image stacking software. All mea- surements are given in mm. Terminology for measurements follows Chatzaki & Arnedo (2006). Terminology for the copulatory organs was adapted from Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman (1988). Abbreviations Prosoma and opisthosoma: OL – opisthosomal length, PL – prosoma length, PWmax – maximum prosoma width, PWmin – minimum prosoma width Eyes: AME – anterior median eyes, PLE – posterior lateral eyes, PME – posterior median eyes, AMEd – diameter of anterior median eye, PLEd – diameter of posterior lateral eye, PMEd – diameter of posterior median eye Chelicera: ChF – length of cheliceral fang, ChG – length of cheliceral groove, ChL – total length of chelicera (lateral ex- ternal view) Legs and palps: Ta – tarsus, Me – metatarsus, Ti – tibia, Pa – patella, Fe – femur, C – coxa, D – dorsal, Pl – prolateral, Rl – retrolateral, Pv – proventral, Rv – retroventral, V – ventral. Results Family Dysderidae C. L. Koch, 1837 Genus Dysdera Latreille, 1804 Dysdera sultani Deeleman-Reinhold, 1988 (Figs 1–4, 7–12, 13–14) D . sultani Deeleman-Reinhold, in Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman, 1988: 214, Figs 236–238. Material examined. TURKEY. 5 (( ,Konya Province,Akşehir District, Cankurtaran Village (38.26667°N, 31.40000°E), 1530 m a.s.l., 12 May 2009, leg. R. S. Kaya; 1 ( , Konya Pro- vince, Akşehir District, Sultan Mountains (38.28075°N, 31.42944°E), 1566 m a.s.l., 15 May 2012, leg. E. A. Yağmur & R. S. Kaya; 1 ) , 1 ( , Eskişehir Province, Odunpazarı District, Yukarı Kalabak Village (39.50917°N, 30.41306°E), 1135 m a.s.l., 2May 2013, leg.R. S.Özkütük; 2 )) , 1 ( , İzmir Province, Menderes District, Özdere (38.02122°N, 27.10119°E), 30 m a.s.l., 03 February 2013, leg.T. Danışman; 1 ) , Uşak Province, Eşme District, c. 2 km east of Hardallı Vilage (38.33694°N, Redescription of Dysdera sultani (Araneae: Dysderidae) with the first description of the female Recep Sulhi Özkütük, Rahşen S. Kaya, Ersen Aydın Yağmur, Tarık Danışman, Salih Gücel & Kadir Boğaç Kunt doi: 10.30963/aramit5704 Abstract. During field trips made to investigate the dysderid fauna of Turkey, specimens of Dysdera sultani Deeleman-Reinhold, 1988, previously known from males only, were collected. Detailed descriptions and photographs of the copulatory organs of both sexes are given. In addition, photographs of some closely related Anatolian species are included. Keywords: Anatolia, new record, spider, Turkey, woodlouse hunter Zusammenfassung. Wiederbeschreibung von Dysdera sultani (Araneae: Dysderidae) mit Erstbeschreibung des Weibchens. Bei Exkursionen zur Untersuchung der Dysderiden-Fauna der Türkei wurden Exemplare von Dysdera sultani Deeleman-Reinhold, 1988 ge- fangen, von der bisher nur Männchen bekannt waren. Es werden Beschreibungen und Fotos der Kopulationsorgane beider Geschlechter der Art präsentiert. Ergänzt wird dies durch Fotos nahe verwandter anatolischer Arten. Recep Sulhi Özkütük, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Eskişehir Techni- cal University, TR- 26470 Eskişehir, Turkey; E-mail: sozkutuk@gmail.com Rahşen S. Kaya, Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts&Science, Uludağ University, TR-16059 Görükle, Bursa, Turkey; E-mail: rahsens@gmail.com Ersen Aydın Yağmur, Alaşehir Vocational School, Celal Bayar University, TR-45600 Alaşehir, Manisa, Turkey; E-mail: ersen.yagmur@gmail.com Tarık Danışman, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Kırıkkale University, TR-71450 Yahşihan, Kırıkkale, Turkey; E-mail: tarikdani@yahoo.com Salih Gücel, Institute of Environmental Sciences and Herbarium, University of Near East, Nicosia, Cyprus; E-mail: sgucel@hotmail.com Kadir Boğaç Kunt, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Eskişehir Technical University, TR- 26470 Eskişehir, Turkey & Zoological Collection of Cyprus Wildlife Research Institute, Taşkent, Kyrenia, Cyprus; E-mail: chaetopelma@gmail.com submitted 22.11.2018, accepted 31.1.2019, online 20.2.2019