Logunov D.V. 2024. On two Karakumosa species (Aranei: Lycosidae), with new faunistic records for three fossorial wolf-spiders from Middle Asia and the Caucasus // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.33. No.3: 407–416 [in English].

Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Embankment 1, St Petersburg 199034 Russia.

Dmitry Logunov: Dmitry.Logunov@zin.ru; ORCID: 0000-0002-1983-7535

doi: 10.15298/arthsel.33.3.09

ABSTRACT. The paper presents new taxonomic-faunistic data on five species of the fossorial Lycosidae (Aranei) from Middle Asia and the Caucasus. A new species of Karakumosa Logunov et Ponomarev, 2020 (♂♀) is described from south-eastern Uzbekistan and eastern Turkmenistan. The taxonomic status and diagnosis of K. turanica Logunov et Ponomarev, 2020 are clarified and its distribution is mapped. Additional faunistic records are provided for Geolycosa dunini Zyuzin et Logunov, 2000; Lycosa praegrandis C.L. Koch, 1836; and Zyuzicosa kopetdaghensis Logunov, 2012.

KEY WORDS: Araneae, distribution, Geolycosa, Lycosa, variation, Zyuzicosa.

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