Berlandina charitonovi (Ponomarev, 1979)

Zamani, Alireza, Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Mirshekar, Ali, Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Kováč, Ľubomír & Marusik, Yuri M., 2025, New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part XII, Zootaxa 5601 (1), pp. 1-45 : 16

Berlandina charitonovi (Ponomarev, 1979) *

Figs 11C , 12E‒G

Berlandina litvinovi Fomichev & Marusik, 2017: 73 , figs 9‒19 (♂ ♀).

For a list of three taxonomic references, see WSC (2025).

Material. IRAN: Sistan & Baluchistan Prov.: 1♀ ( ZMUT), Zabol, 31°02'12"N 61°32'14"E, 480 m, 23.04.2021 (M. Enayatnia) .

Distribution. Caucasus to Kazakhstan and Mongolia. New to Iran (the southernmost record).

Figures

FIGURE 11. Habitus of Trichothyse hamipalpis (A, B), Berlandina charitonovi (C), and Talanites sakastanicus sp. nov. (D), dorsal view. A—male; B‒D—females.

FIGURE 12. Copulatory organs of Trichothyse hamipalpis (A‒D), Berlandina charitonovi (E‒G), and Talanites sakastanicus sp. nov. (H, I). A, B—male palp, ventral and retrolateral views; C, G, H—macerated epigyne, ventral view; D, F, I—endogyne, dorsal view; E—intact epigyne, ventral view. Scale bars: 0.2 mm. Abbreviations: Gs—globular structure; Rb—base of the receptacle; Rh—head of the receptacle.