Logunov D.V. 2025. Further notes on the wolf spider genus Asiacosa Logunov, 2023 (Aranei: Lycosidae) // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.34. No.2: 273–280 [in English].
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Embankment 1, St Petersburg 199034 Russia.
Dmitry Logunov: Dmitry.Logunov@zin.ru; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1983-7535
doi: 10.15298/arthsel.34.2.11
ABSTRACT. The paper presents new taxonomic-faunistic data on four species of Asiacosa Logunov, 2023 (Lycosidae, Aranei) from Middle Asia. The name Lycosa asiatica Sytshevskaja, 1980, syn.n. is synonymized with Lycosa kulagini Spassky, 1941. Two Asiacosa species are described as new to science: viz., A. krivokhatskyi sp.n. (♂; Turkmenistan) and A. ovchinnikovi sp.n. (♂♀; Tajikistan). A distributional map and identification key to all the Middle Asian species of Asiacosa are provided as well.
KEY WORDS: Araneae, Middle Asia, Tajkistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, descriptions, distribution.