| dc.contributor.author | Zonstein, Sergei | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kunt, Kadir B. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yağmur, Ersen A. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-20T08:00:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-10-20T08:00:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2118-9773 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11421/16066 | |
| dc.description | WOS: 000424323000001 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The genus Raveniola Zonstein, 1987 is found to be represented in Western Asia by 16 species: male female R. adjarica sp. nov. (Georgia), male R. anadolu sp. nov. (Turkey), male R. arthuri Kunt & Yagmur, 2010 (Turkey), male R. birecikensis sp. nov. (Turkey), male female R. dunini sp. nov. (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran), male female R. hyrcanica Dunin, 1988 (Azerbaijan),male R. marusiki sp. nov. (Iran), male R. mazandaranica Marusik, Zamani & Mirshamsi, 2014 (Iran), male female R. micropa (Ausserer, 1871) (Turkey), female R. nana sp. nov. (Turkey), male female R. niedermeyeri (Brignoli, 1972) (Iran), male female R. pontica (Spassky, 1937) (Russia, Georgia), female R. sinani sp. nov. (Turkey), male female R. turcica sp. nov. (Turkey), male female R. vonwicki Zonstein, 2000 (Iran) and male female R. zaitzevi (Charitonov, 1948) (Azerbaijan, Georgia) = female Brachythele recki Mcheidze, 1983, syn. nov. Eight species are described as new; others are redescribed from types and/or conspecific material. Males of R. micropa and R. zaitzevi, hitherto unknown, are described for the first time. Data on the variability, relationships, distribution and ecology of all considered species are also provided. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Ministry of Absorption, Israel | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | We thank Yuri Marusik (Institute for Biological Problems of the North, Magadan), Vladimir Ovcharenko (the former curator of the ZISP spider collection), Peter Schwendinger (MHNG), Shuqiang Li (ICAZ), Peter Jager and Julia Altmann (SMF), Nikolai Pakhorukov (the former curator of the MZPU spider collection), Alexander Koval (VIZR), the late Pyotr Dunin (Baku, Azerbaijan, later Tolyatti, Russia), Kirill Mikhailov (ZMMU), Jurgen Gruber (the former curator of the NMW spider collection), Christine Rollard and Elise-Anne LeGuin (MNHN), and Laura Leibensperger (MCZ) for providing nemesiid specimens for study. We are grateful to our Turkish colleagues, Rahsen Kaya (Uludag University, Bursa) and Recep Sulhi Ozkutuk (Anadolu University, Eskisehir), for help and assistance while collecting in Turkey in September 2010 and Mehmet Ozkoruk for his help during field trips in south-eastern Anatolia. Our colleagues Mykola Kovblyuk (Tavrida University, Crimea) and Natalia Snegovaya (Research Institute of Zoology, Baku) kindly provided us with photographs of relevant Caucasian landscapes. Kadir Kunt and Ersen Yagmur thank Alireza Zamani (University of Tehran, Iran) for photographs showing nemesiid localities in Iran, live spiders and their retreats. Special thanks go to Seppo Koponen (ZMUT) for providing us with museum facilities. An early draft of the manuscript was kindly edited by Naomi Paz (TAU). We thank Shuqiang Li and Peter Schwendinger for their valuable comments and recommendations which helped to improve the original manuscript. This study was supported in part by the Ministry of Absorption, Israel. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Museum Natl Histoire Naturelle | en_US |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
| dc.subject | Taxonomy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mygalomorphae | en_US |
| dc.subject | New Species | en_US |
| dc.subject | New Records | en_US |
| dc.subject | Palearctic Region | en_US |
| dc.title | A revision of the spider genus Raveniola (Araneae, Nemesiidae). I. Species from Western Asia | en_US |
| dc.type | article | en_US |
| dc.relation.journal | European Journal of Taxonomy | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Anadolu Üniversitesi, Fen Fakültesi, Biyoloji Bölümü | en_US |
| dc.identifier.volume | 399 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 1 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 93 | en_US |
| dc.relation.publicationcategory | Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | en_US |
