TY  - JOUR
A1  - Magalhaes, Ivan L. F.
A1  - Aharon, Shlomi
A1  - Ganem, Zeana
A1  - Gavish-Regev, Efrat
T1  - A new semi-cryptic Filistata from caves in the Levant with comments on the limits of Filistata insidiatrix (Forsskål, 1775) (Arachnida: Araneae: Filistatidae)
T2  - European journal of taxonomy
N2  - We describe a new troglophilic species of Filistata, F. betarif sp. nov. , collected from two caves in central Israel, by using light and electron microscopy and by DNA barcoding of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene. Sequences of this gene show more than 15% of divergence between the new species and its sibling, F. insidiatrix (Forsskål, 1775), which is widely distributed across the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Notwithstanding, the two species are diagnosed only by a minor morphological detail in the embolic keel of the male pedipalp; females of both species are not diagnosable based only on morphology. We also find that samples of F. insidiatrix from different localities have large genetic divergence values (larger than 15% in some cases), but their pedipalps are identical in males; this suggests that F. insidiatrix might hide an additional cryptic diversity. We take this opportunity to provide a dichotomous key for identifying the crevice-weavers (Filistatidae) of Israel and Palestine.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 831:149-174 
KW  - DNA barcoding
KW  - Israel
KW  - Mediterranean
KW  - Palestine
KW  - troglophilev
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/68752
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-687520
SN  - 2118-9773
VL  - 2022
IS  - 831
SP  - 149
EP  - 174
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -