Kovblyuk M.M.1,5, Marusik Yu.M.2,5, Omelko M.M.3,4,5 2012. A survey of Transcaucasian Dipoena sensu lato (Aranei: Theridiidae) with a description of new species // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.21. No.3: 247–254 [in English].

1 Zoology Department, V.I. Vernadsky Taurida National University, Yaltinskaya Street 4, Simferopol 95007, Ukraine. E-mail: kovblyuk@mail.ru

2 Institute for Biological Problems of the North, RAS, Portovaya Str. 18, Magadan 685000, Russia. E-mail: yurmar@mail.ru

3 Gornotaezhnaya Station FEB RAS, Gornotaezhnoe Vil., Ussuriyski Dist., Primorski krai 692533, Russia. E-mail: omelkom@gmail.com

4 Far Eastern Federal University, Sukhanova 8, Vladivostok 690950, Russia.

5 Zoological Museum, University of Turku, FI-20014, Turku, Finland.

Key words: Abkhazia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, new species.

ABSTRACT. Seven species of Dipoena sensu lato belonging to four genera: Dipoena Thorell, 1869 (2 species), Lasaeola Simon, 1881 (3 species), Phycosoma O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879 (1 species) and Yagi­numena Yoshida, 2002 (1 species) were found in Transcaucasia. One new species, Lasaeola dbari sp.n. is described from Abkhazia. Lasaeola tristis (Hahn, 1833) is recorded from Caucasus for the first time.

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