Geci D.1, Kunt K.B.2, Yağmur E.A.3, Sherwood D.1* 2026. First record of Ischnocolus Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Turkey // Invert. Zool. Vol.23. No.2: 344–349 [in English].
1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Prishtina, Mother Teresa Street p.n., 10000 Prishtinë, Republic of Kosovo.
2 Cyprus Wildlife Research Institute, Taşkent, Kyrenia, Cyprus.
3 Manisa Celal Bayar University, Alaşehir Vocational School, Alaşehir, Manisa, 45600, Turkey.
* Corresponding author
Donard Geci: donard.geci@uni-pr.edu ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6587-3414
Kadir Boğaç Kunt: chaetopelma@gmail.com ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3137-5510
Ersen Aydın Yağmur: ersen.yagmur@gmail.com ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0396-3975
Danniella Sherwood: danni.sherwood@hotmail.com ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8170-9529
doi: 10.15298/invertzool.23.2.10
ABSTRACT: Ischnocolus valentinus (Dufour, 1820) is recorded from Muğla Province in western Turkey based on a male deposited in the Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum. This also constitutes the first record of the genus Ischnocolus from Turkey.
KEY WORDS: Aranei, Ischnocolinae, taxonomy, morphology, museums, West Asia.