Author(s): Szita, É. & Logunov, D.
Title: A review of the histrio group of the spider genus Philodromus Walckenaer, 1826 (Araneae, Philodromidae) of the Eastern Palaearctic Region
Year: 2008
Volume: 54
Pages: 23-73.
Abstract: The data on taxonomy, distribution and habitat preferences of 13 species of the histrio species group of the genus Philodromus the eastern Palaearctic Region (Central Asia and Siberia) are presented. Five new species, P. ablegminus sp. n. (male and female; NE Kazakhstan), P. xerophilus sp. n. (male and female; NE Kazakhstan and the mountains of S Siberia), P. tuvinensis sp. n. (male and female; NE Kazakhstan and the mountains of S Siberia), P. timidus sp. n. (male; NE Kazakhstan) and P. angulobulbis sp. n. (male and female; the mountains of S Siberia), are described. The formerly unknown male of P. triangulatus Wu et Song, 1987 is described. Philodromus nanjiangensis Hu et Wu, 1989 is synonymized with P. pictus Kroneberg, 1875. An identification key to all the studied species is provided. The work is reachly illustrated with 80 original drawings and 11 distributional maps.
Keywords: new species, taxonomy, key, new synonymy, Central Asia, Siberia, spider
Journal: Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
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ISSN: 1217-8837
Publisher: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest
Editor(s): Bakonyi, G., Wei, C.-H., Mahunka, S., Horváth, Cs., Papp, L., Nakayama, A., Báldi, A., Yen, S.-H., Csuzdi, Cs., Nieukerken, E. J. van, Forró, L., Wojtusiak, J., Mey, W. & Masumoto, K.
