Runcinia tarabayevi Marusik et Logunov, 1990

Nuruyeva, T. V. & Snegovaya, N. Yu., 2024, New records of spiders of the family Thomisidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Caucasus, Zoosystematica Rossica (China) 33 (1), pp. 102-105 : 103-104

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scientific name	Runcinia tarabayevi Marusik et Logunov, 1990
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Runcinia tarabayevi Marusik et Logunov, 1990 View in CoL

( Figs 4–7)

Runcinia tarabayevi Marusik et Logunov, 1990: 33 View in CoL , figs 1–5 (male); Lehtinen, 2004: 175, figs 4, 46 (male); Zamani et al., 2019: 242, figs 1E–G (male).

Material examined. Azerbaijan, Nakhchivan, Sharur Distr. , Akhura Vill., 39°34′40.02″N 45°09′06.86″E GoogleMaps ,

1203 m a.s.l., on ground, 22. VI .2011, 1 male, N.Yu. Snegovaya leg. ( IZBA) .

Distribution. The species is known from Kazakhstan ( Marusik & Logunov, 1990; Zyuzin & Tarabaev, 1993; Ponomarev, 2008), Kyrgyzstan ( Marusik & Logunov, 1990), Tajikistan ( Marusik & Logunov, 1995), Mongolia ( Marusik & Logunov, 1999) Iran ( Zamani et al., 2019), and Russia: Astrakhan Province (Ponomarev, 2022) and Chelyabinsk Province ( Esyunin et al., 2024) ( Fig. 8).

Data on Thomisidae of Azerbaijan is scattered in numerous works by Dunin, Huseynov, Khasayeva, Nuruyeva, Marusik, and other authors. The best studied regions of Azerbaijan include the Sheki-Zakatala area in the north ( Dunin, 1989),

T.V. Nuruyeva & N.Yu. Snegovaya. New records of Thomisidae from the Caucasus the Absheron Peninsula and Gobustan in the east ( Dunin, 1984; Guseinov, 1999; Nuruyeva, 2022), the Ganja-Gazakh area in the west ( Khasayeva, 2021) and the Lankaran area in the south ( Guseinov, 1999). At the same time, the central, northeastern and southwestern parts of the country, including Nakhchivan, remain insufficiently or extremely poorly studied. To date, eight species of Thomisidae have been recorded from Nakhchivan ( Marusik et al., 2005). With the present data, their number has increased up to ten. The genera Bassaniodes and Xysticus C.L. Koch, 1835 are most speciose, each accounting for three species. The genera Ozyptila Simon, 1864 , Synema Simon, 1864 , Thomisus Walckenaer, 1805 , and Runcinia each includes one species recorded. The above numbers undoubtedly do not reflect the true richness of the thomisid fauna of Nakhchivan, indicating the need for further study of the Thomisidae of this region.