Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57

First record of Poltys nagpurensis from Iran 5 5.8 long, 4.75 wide; eye tubercle protuberance 0.58 long, 1.0 wide; cephalic area 3.0 long and 2.4 wide; opisthosoma (shri- velled) 7.9 long, 6.07 wide. Prosoma greyish brown, cephalic part paler and covered with a dorsal set of long whitish hairs. Eye sizes and interdis- tances: AME 0.12, ALE 0.14, PME 0.15, PLE 0.18, PME– PLE 0.91. Chelicerae with three promarginal and three ret- romarginal teeth. Leg dark annulated, measurements: femur I 7.1, femur III 4.6, femur IV 5.4 (rest of the leg segments missing). Opisthosoma greyish, anterodorsally with two lar- ge horn-shaped protuberances extending over the carapace, and a smaller median protuberance; posteriorly, horizontally- wrinkled without distinct pattern (Fig. 1e). Book lungs co- vered with transverse wrinkles (Fig. 1c). Epigyne as in Fig. 3a–d; appears on intact opisthosoma as thin transverse sclerotization (Fig. 1c); epigynal plate with rounded lobe or kind of scape (Sc), wider than long; with thin septum (Se), fovea (Fo) narrow, boomerang-shaped, rounded lateral plates (Lp) separated somewhat less than receptacle diameter; receptacles (Re) partly visible, round with hemi­ spherical posterior sclerotization (Ps). Holotype (Fig. 2) . Female. Total length 12.47. Prosoma 4.25 wide (length not measurable because of the opisthosoma co- vering the posterior margin of prosoma); eye tubercle protu- berance 0.41 long, 0.95 wide; cephalic area 2.69 long, 2.13 wide; opisthosoma 10.58 long, 9.77 wide. Measurements differ slightly in comparison to the original description by Tikader (1982).This is probably caused by storing of the spe- cimen in alcohol, by different position during measurement due to rounded opisthosoma and also by different methods of measuring. Prosoma dark brown, cephalic part paler and covered with whitish hairs. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.17, ALE 0.14, PME 0.17, PLE 0.14, PME–PLE 0.59. Sternum unicolour orange-brown. Chelicerae with four promarginal (second one very small) and four smaller retromarginal teeth (Fig. 2c–d). Legs dark annulated. Opisthosoma yellowish with irregular darker pattern and many small tubercles, an- terodorsally with two larger humps; ventrally whitish with dark brown epigastrium. Epigyne as in Fig. 3e–h; trilobed, rounded and bulged on the tip; lateral plates broadly covered fovea and copulatory grooves, visible fovea narrow, median plate is reduced to thin septum; receptacles partly visible. Distribution. This species is currently known from Hor- mozgan Province in southern Iran (present paper), and wes- tern (Tikader 1982,Warghat et al. 2010, Rithe 2012, Keswani 2015 – misidentified as P. illepidus ; Shirbhate & Shirbhate 2017) and central India (Rajoria 2015 – misidentified as P. illepidus ). Here we provide the first recorded occurrence of the genus Poltys in Iran, and the Middle East (Zamani et al. 2018). It is also the westernmost record of this genus in the entire Asia (Fig. 4). In the case that the species has not been accidentally introduced to Iran, its presence might also be ex- pected in mangroves in Pakistan. Habitat. The single specimen from Iran was collect in man­ groves. In India it was found in different types of habitats. Unfortunately, many authors did not specify the locality, and such information is missing about the type locality as well (Tikader 1982; it was omitted also on the original label). Warghat et al. (2010) collected this species in a forest near an agricultural field, while Shirbhate & Shirbhate (2017) found Fig. 1: Poltys nagpurensis from Iran. a–b. prosoma, lateral and dorsal; c. venter of opisthosoma, showing book lungs with transverse wrinkles and black arrow points to epigyne; d. habitus of preserved and dried out specimen; e–f. photos of the live specimen, posterior and frontal. Photos e–f by M. Ghasemi