A new species of Acantholycosa Dahl, 1908 (Aranei: Lycosidae) from the highlands of Sikhote-Alin Mountains, Maritime Territory of Russia

• Main Authors: Omelko, Mikhail, Fomichev, Alexander
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Araneae; biodiversity; endemism; Far East of Russia; taxonomy; wolf spiders; Sibirica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7703422

A new species of wolf spider, Acantholycosa voronoii sp. nov., collected among isolated screes in the highlands of Sikhote-Alin Mountains, is diagnosed, illustrated and described based on both sexes. The new species is related to A. irinae Fomichev & Omelko, 2020, a species recently described from a neighboring mountain; the two species differ in the conformation of copulatory organs and number of ventral spines on tibia I. A distribution map of all known Acantholycosa species in south of Maritime Territory is provided. We wish to thank Mikhail M. Omelko-senior (Gornotaezhnoe, Russia) and Oleg N. Voronoi (Kishinevka, Russia) for their help with organizing the fieldworks during which the material presented here was collected. Special thanks go to Yuri V. Dyachkov (Barnaul, Russia) for being a great help in field work and collecting. We are grateful to Alireza Zamani (Turku, Finland) for commenting on the early draft and editing the English. Finally, we thank the editor and Galina N. Azarkina (ISEA) for their critical comments which helped to improve the manuscript. The work of Alexander A. Fomichev was supported in the framework of "Priority-2030" Program by the Altai State University