TY - JOUR T1 - A new funnel-web spider species (Araneae: Agelenidae, Tegenaria) from Mercantour National Park, France JF - Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society Y1 - 2010 A1 - Bolzern, Angelo A1 - Herve, Christophe SP - 21 EP - 26 KW - Eurasia KW - Europe KW - Land zones KW - New taxa KW - Nomenclature KW - Palaearctic region KW - Systematics KW - Tegenaria mercanturensis (Araneae): [Sp nov, France, P. 22]. KW - Tegenaria mercanturensis [France / / New species]. AB -

During a survey of the spider fauna of the Mercantour National Park in the French Alps, several interesting and new taxa were found. One of these new taxa. Tegenaria mercantarensis n. sp. (Agelenidae) is described here. The new species shows distinct morphological characters which allow easy separation from all other Tegenaria or Malthonica species. The most important characters in males are the short, truncated embolus (a character shared with T. rlomestica, the type species of Tegenaria, and T. miritica), the broad. curved hammerhead-shaped conductor and the RTA. Distinct characters in females are the atrium with wide spiral copulatory openings anterior to an anchor-shaped sclerotised ground plate, the strongly sclerotised and irregularly formed "shield" around the tubular-shaped spermathecae. and the conspicuous anterolateral lentiform areas of the spermathecae, covered only by membrane.During a survey of the spider fauna of the Mercantour National Park in the French Alps, several interesting and new taxa were found. One of these new taxa. Tegenaria mercantarensis n. sp. (Agelenidae) is described here. The new species shows distinct morphological characters which allow easy separation from all other Tegenaria or Malthonica species. The most important characters in males are the short, truncated embolus (a character shared with T. rlomestica, the type species of Tegenaria, and T. miritica), the broad. curved hammerhead-shaped conductor and the RTA. Distinct characters in females are the atrium with wide spiral copulatory openings anterior to an anchor-shaped sclerotised ground plate, the strongly sclerotised and irregularly formed "shield" around the tubular-shaped spermathecae. and the conspicuous anterolateral lentiform areas of the spermathecae, covered only by membrane.

VL - 15 SN - 0524-4994 N1 - ZOOR14609062831 ER -