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Genus: Mesiotelus Simon, 1897 | Family: Liocranidae Simon, 1897

Mesiotelus caucasicus Zamani & Marusik, 2021

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053651

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Described:

Distribution: Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran

External Resources*: araneae - Spiders of Europe

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia m - (Zamani & Marusik, 2021e)
Paratype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia 3m 14f - (Zamani & Marusik, 2021e)
Paratype: Manchester Museum of the University of Manchester (MMUE/MMUM), Manchester, United Kingdom 3f - (Zamani & Marusik, 2021e)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1f - (Zamani & Marusik, 2021e)

Taxonomic References

Mesiotelus caucasicus Zamani & Marusik, 2021e: 560, f. 3A-I, 4A-G, 5A-E (Dmf) Original description

Mesiotelus cf. scopensis Zarikian, Propistsova & Marusik, 2022: 109, f. 5A-E (f; misidentified per Zamani & Marusik, 2021e: 560)

Mesiotelus caucasicus Coşar, Danışman & Erdek, 2023: 9, f. 1-5 (f)

Mesiotelus caucasicus Seropian et al., 2023: 259, f. 66 (f)

References

Coşar, İ., Danışman, T. & Erdek, M. (2023). The genus Mesiotelus Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Liocranidae) in Turkey. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 19(1): 9-13. doi: 10.23885/181433262023191-913 -- Show included taxa

Seropian, A., Bulbulashvili, N., Otto, S., Krammer, H.-J., Kachlishvili, N. & Datunashvili, A. (2023). Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297 & Suppl. doi: 10.3897/caucasiana.2.e110536 -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2021e). Two new species of Liocranidae (Arachnida: Aranei) from the Caucasus and northern Iran. Arthropoda Selecta 30(4): 557-564. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.30.4.12 -- Show included taxa

Zarikian, N. A., Propistsova, E. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2022). On spider families (Arachnida: Araneae) new to Armenia. Israel Journal of Entomology 51(2021): 103-117. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6466083 [[publ. in April 2022]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Gloor, D., Hänggi, A., Kropf, C.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 05.2018. doi: 10.24436/1

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2023-12-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Seropian et al., 2023
2023-12-21	Species distribution update	Seropian et al., 2023	Old value
2023-03-05	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon	Zamani & Marusik, 2021e	Old value
2023-01-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Coşar, Danışman & Erdek, 2023
2023-01-26	Species distribution update	Coşar, Danışman & Erdek, 2023	Old value
2021-12-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani & Marusik, 2021e
2021-12-17	New species inserted	Zamani & Marusik, 2021e