TY - JOUR

T1 - New taxonomic and faunistic data on the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1826 (Araneae: Zodariidae) in the Balkans, with the descriptions of two new species

AU - Deltshev, Christo

AU - Naumova, Maria

AU - Matevski, Dragan

AU - Indzhov, Simeon

N1 - Funding Information: We are indebted to Emilija Stojkoska and Marjan Komnenov (Natural History Museum, Skopje, North Macedonia), Mario Langourov and Stoyan Lazarov (NMNHS, Sofia, Bulgaria), Teodora Teofilova, Toshko Ljubomirov and Nikolay Karaivanov (IBER, Sofia, Bulgaria) and Peter Schwendinger (MHNG, Genève, Switzerland), who provided us with material for this study, to László Mezőfi (Szent István University, Gödöllo, Hungary) and Tamás Szűts (University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest, Hungary), who kindly provided photos of the holotype of Z. scutatum, and to Arnaud Henrard (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium) and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. This research was supported by Cybertaxonomic approach to phylogenetic studies of model invertebrate genera (Invertebrata, Arachnida, Insecta) clarifying the problems of origin, formation and conservation of the Invertebrate Fauna of the Balkan Peninsula”-National Science Fund, Ministry of Education, Youth and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria, Grant KP-06-Н21/1-17.12.2018 and by the projects “ANIDIV 3” and “ANIDIV 4” (funded by the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences). Funding Information: We are indebted to Emilija Stojkoska and Marjan Komnenov (Natural History Museum, Skopje, North Macedonia), Mario Langourov and Stoyan Lazarov (NMNHS, Sofia, Bulgaria), Teodora Teofilova, Toshko Ljubomirov and Nikolay Karaivanov (IBER, Sofia, Bulgaria) and Peter Schwendinger (MHNG, Genève, Switzerland), who provided us with material for this study, to László Mezőfi (Szent István University, Gödöllo, Hungary) and Tamás Szűts (University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest, Hungary), who kindly provided photos of the holotype of Z. scutatum, and to Arnaud Henrard (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium) and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. This research was supported by Cybertaxonomic approach to phylogenetic studies of model invertebrate genera (Invertebrata, Arachnida, Insecta) clarifying the problems of origin, formation and conservation of the Invertebrate Fauna of the Balkan Peninsula”—National Science Fund, Ministry of Education, Youth and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria, Grant KP-06-Н21/1-17.12.2018 and by the projects “ANIDIV 3” and “ANIDIV 4” (funded by the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences). Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2022 Magnolia Press.

PY - 2022/8/10

Y1 - 2022/8/10

N2 - Two new species, Zodarion emilijae sp. n. (♂♀) from North Macedonia and Z. weissi sp. n. (♂♀) from Bulgaria are described and illustrated, and new taxonomic and faunistic data for six species, namely Z. blagoevi Bosmans, 2009, Z. epirense Brignoli, 1984, Z. konradi Bosmans, 2009, Z. rubidum Simon, 1914, Z. scutatum Wunderlich, 1980 and Z. zorba Bosmans, 2009 are presented. Five species are removed from the Bulgarian, the Greek or the North Macedonian checklists as doubtful, erroneous or definitely incorrectly identified records: Zodarion epirense Brignoli, 1984, Z. evvoia Bosmans, 2009, Z. germanicum (C. L. Koch, 1837), Z. graecum (C. L. Koch, 1843) and Z. italicum (Canestrini, 1868).

AB - Two new species, Zodarion emilijae sp. n. (♂♀) from North Macedonia and Z. weissi sp. n. (♂♀) from Bulgaria are described and illustrated, and new taxonomic and faunistic data for six species, namely Z. blagoevi Bosmans, 2009, Z. epirense Brignoli, 1984, Z. konradi Bosmans, 2009, Z. rubidum Simon, 1914, Z. scutatum Wunderlich, 1980 and Z. zorba Bosmans, 2009 are presented. Five species are removed from the Bulgarian, the Greek or the North Macedonian checklists as doubtful, erroneous or definitely incorrectly identified records: Zodarion epirense Brignoli, 1984, Z. evvoia Bosmans, 2009, Z. germanicum (C. L. Koch, 1837), Z. graecum (C. L. Koch, 1843) and Z. italicum (Canestrini, 1868).

KW - ant-eating spiders

KW - Bulgaria

KW - check list

KW - digital images

KW - Europe

KW - fauna

KW - Greece

KW - Montenegro

KW - North Macedonia

KW - Biology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85137715541&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.11646/zootaxa.5174.3.3

DO - 10.11646/zootaxa.5174.3.3

M3 - Journal articles

C2 - 36095399

AN - SCOPUS:85137715541

VL - 5174

SP - 247

EP - 261

JO - Zootaxa

JF - Zootaxa

SN - 1175-5326

IS - 3

ER -