Ponomarev A.V.1, Mikhailov K.G.2, Shmatko V.Yu.1 2024. Review of spiders of the genus Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 (Aranei: Agelenidae) of Ciscaucasia and the Russian Caucasus. III. New data on fauna and distribution, with material from neighbouring regions // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.33. No.2. P.273–287 [in English].
1 Federal Research Centre the Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chekhov str., 41, Rostov-on-Don 344006 Russia.
2 Zoological Museum MGU, Bolshaya Nikitskaya Str. 2, Moscow 125009 Russia.
Kirill Mikhailov mikhailov2000@gmail.com ORCID 0000-0001-3304-5470
Alexander Ponomarev ponomarev1952@mail.ru ORCID 0000-0001-7448-0383
Vladimir Shmatko antijus@gmail.com ORCID 0000-0001-8180-8543
doi: 10.15298/arthsel.33.2.15
ABSTRACT. Twenty species of Tegenaria are reported from the Caucasus and Ciscaucasia. Of these, nineteen species were recorded from the territory of Russia. Five new Tegenaria species are described from western and northern Caucasus, namely T. brinikhi sp.n. (♂♀, Adygeya), T. dagestana sp.n. (♀, Dagestan), T. tetrica sp.n. (♀, Krasnodar Territory), T. tsekhok sp.n. (♀, Dagestan), T. utrish sp.n. (♀, Krasnodar Territory), as well as the previously unknown females of T. latens Ponomarev, 2022 and T. osetica Ponomarev, 2022. New distribution data are provided for T. chumachenkoi Kovblyuk et Ponomarev, 2008, T. hasperi Chyzer, 1897, T. komarovi Ponomarev, 2022, T. latens Ponomarev, 2022, T. osetica Ponomarev, 2022, T. prisnyi Ponomarev, 2021, T. pseudolyncea (Guseinov, Marusik et Koponen, 2005). In addition, T. chumachenkoi is newly recorded from the fauna of Azerbaijan, T. komarovi — from Abkhazia and T. pseudolyncea — from Georgia. A distribution map for T. brinikhi sp.n., T. pseudolyncea, T. prisnyi, and T. terskovi is provided as well.
KEY WORDS: Araneae, Agelenidae, new species, new records, south of Russia.