Taxon details

Family: Liocranidae / Genus: Mesiotelus

Mesiotelus scopensis Drensky, 1935

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-10-08
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:024253]
  • Distribution: Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iran
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Researches (IBER), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria; (Syn: Mesiotelus deltshevi) m (ALO.0001) (Naumova, 2020)
  • Holotype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia; (Syn: Mesiotelus caucasicus) m (Zamani & Marusik, 2021e)
  • Paratype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia; (Syn: Mesiotelus caucasicus) 3m 14f (Zamani & Marusik, 2021e)
  • Paratype: Manchester Museum of the University of Manchester (MMUE/MMUM), Manchester, United Kingdom; (Syn: Mesiotelus caucasicus) 3f (Zamani & Marusik, 2021e)
  • Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland; (Syn: Mesiotelus caucasicus) 1f (Zamani & Marusik, 2021e)
Taxonomic references
Mesiotelus cyprius scopensis Drensky, 1935: 106, f. 5 (Df).
Mesiotelus deltshevi Naumova, 2020: 4, f. 2-3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051750].
Mesiotelus caucasicus Zamani & Marusik, 2021e: 560, f. 3A-I, 4A-G, 5A-E (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053651].
Mesiotelus deltshevi Zamani & Marusik, 2021e: 560, f. 5H-I (f).
Mesiotelus cf. scopensis Zarikian, Propistsova & Marusik, 2022: 109, f. 5A-E (f; confirmed by Zamani & Marusik, 2021e: 560, sub M. caucasicus).
Mesiotelus caucasicus Coşar, Danışman & Erdek, 2023: 9, f. 1-5 (f).
Mesiotelus deltshevi Coşar, Danışman & Erdek, 2023: 10, f. 6-11 (f).
Mesiotelus caucasicus Seropian et al., 2023: 259, f. 66 (f).
Mesiotelus scopensis Zamani et al., 2024b: 203, f. 20-24 (m, S of Mesiotelus caucasicus and M. deltshevi).
References

Coşar, İ., Danışman, T. & Erdek, M. (2023). The genus Mesiotelus Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Liocranidae) in Turkey. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 19(1): 9-13. doi:10.23885/181433262023191-913 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Drensky, P. (1935). Über die von Dr. Stanko Karaman in Jugoslavien und besonders in Mazedonien gesammelten Spinnen (Araneae) [Paiatzi (Araneae) seubirani ot Dr Stanko Karaman w Jougoslavia i osobeno w Makedonia]. Izvestiya na Tsarskite Prirodonauchni Instituti v Sofia 8: 97-110. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Naumova, M. (2020). Descriptions of two new spider species, with new data on the Albanian arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Pseudoscorpiones and Scorpiones). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 72(1): 3-12. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Seropian, A., Bulbulashvili, N., Otto, S., Krammer, H.-J., Kachlishvili, N. & Datunashvili, A. (2023). Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297 & Suppl. doi:10.3897/caucasiana.2.e110536 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2021e). Two new species of Liocranidae (Arachnida: Aranei) from the Caucasus and northern Iran. Arthropoda Selecta 30(4): 557-564. doi:10.15298/arthsel.30.4.12 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A., Fomichev, A. A., Naumova, M., Kaya, R. S. & Marusik, Y. M. (2024b). New taxonomic and faunistic data on Liocranidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of West Palaearctic), with nine new species of Mesiotelus Simon, 1897. Zootaxa 5519(2): 190-214. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5519.2.2 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zarikian, N. A., Propistsova, E. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2022). On spider families (Arachnida: Araneae) new to Armenia. Israel Journal of Entomology 51(2021): 103-117. [publ. in April 2022] doi:10.5281/zenodo.6466083 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-10-08 Species synonymy Zamani et al., 2024b Mesiotelus deltshevi synonymized with Mesiotelus scopensis
2024-10-08 Species synonymy Zamani et al., 2024b Mesiotelus caucasicus synonymized with Mesiotelus scopensis
2024-10-08 New taxonomic reference entry Zamani et al., 2024b n/a
2024-10-08 Species distribution update Zamani et al., 2024b n/a (Old value)
2024-10-08 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2024-10-08 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus confusus Zamani, Fomichev, Naumova & Marusik, 2024
2023-08-17 New taxonomic reference entry Bosmans, 2023 n/a
2023-07-17 New taxonomic reference entry Demircan Aksan, 2023 n/a
2023-04-29 New taxonomic reference entry Tutar & Yağmur, 2023 n/a
2023-03-05 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Zamani & Marusik, 2021e Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mesiotelus caucasicus Zamani & Marusik, 2021
2023-01-26 New taxonomic reference entry Coşar, Danışman & Erdek, 2023 n/a
2022-05-26 New taxonomic reference entry Zarikian, Propistsova & Marusik, 2022 n/a
2022-05-26 Species distribution update Zarikian, Propistsova & Marusik, 2022 n/a (Old value)
2021-12-17 New taxonomic reference entry Zamani & Marusik, 2021e n/a
2020-03-25 New taxonomic reference entry Naumova, 2020 n/a
2015-12-23 New taxonomic reference entry Elverici, Özkütük & Kunt, 2013 n/a
2015-12-23 Species distribution update Elverici, Özkütük & Kunt, 2013 n/a (Old value)
2014-10-13 Species distribution update n/a (Old value)