Tanasevitch A.V.1, Ponomarev A.V.2, Chumachenko Yu.A.3 2016. Two new species of the subfamily Erigoninae from the Caucasus (Aranei: Linyphiidae) // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.25. No.4: 423–426 [in English].

1 Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt, 33, Moscow 119071, Russia. E-mail: tanasevitch@gmail.com

2 Institute of Arid Zones, Southern Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chekhov str., 41, Rostov-on-Don 344006, Russia. E-mail: ponomarev1952@mail.ru

3 Caucasian State Biosphere Nature Reserve, Sovetskaya str., 187, Maikop 385000, Russia. E-mail: ychumachenko73@mail.ru

KEY WORDS: spiders, Asthenargus, Maculoncus, Russia, Adygea, Georgia, new species.

ABSTRACT. Two new species of the subfamily Erigoninae are described from the Caucasus: Asthenargus adygeicus sp.n. (Adygea Republic, Russia) and Maculoncus (?) obscurus sp.n. (Adygea Republic, Russia; Georgia). A. adygeicus sp.n. seems to be most similar to the Caucasian A. caucasicus Tanasevitch, 1987, but is distinguished by the absence of a mastidion in the male chelicerae, as well as by a few details of genitalic structure in both sexes. Since the taxonomic position of M. (?) obscurus sp.n., described from males alone, remains unclear, it is provisionally assigned to the genus Maculoncus Wunderlich, 1995.

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