A new species of Phyxioschema (Araneae: Dipluridae) from Iran

摘要

Phyxioschema gedrosia sp. nov. is described from a single male collected in Sistan & Baluchistan Province, southeastern Iran. The new species appears most closely related to P roxana Schwendinger & Zonstein, 2011 found in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, from which it clearly differs by the shape of tibia II (angle between article and its ventral spur acute instead of rounded; apical megaspines of spur situated one behind the other instead of side by side) and of metatarsus II (proventral keel subquadrangular instead of triangular). The presence of two additional Phyxioschema populations in southwestern and central Iran is mentioned and the currently known distribution of the genus in Iran is mapped.