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Issue: Vol. 5711 No. 4: 21 Oct. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-10-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5711.4.7
Page range: 579-588
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We have two of them: A review of the genus Mastigusa (Araneae: Cybaeidae) in Bulgaria

Faculty of Biology; Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”; 8 Dragan Tsankov Blvd; 1164 Sofia; Bulgaria.
National Museum of Natural History; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; 1 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd; 1000 Sofia; Bulgaria
Department of Zoology; Faculty of Science; Charles University; Viničná 7; 128 44 Praha; Czech Republic
National Museum of Natural History; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; 1 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd; 1000 Sofia; Bulgaria
Department of Natural History; University Museum of Bergen; University of Bergen; Postbox 7800; 5020 Bergen; Norway
Araneae faunistics myrmecophilous phylogeny spiders

Abstract

In the present study, we review the status of the genus Mastigusa Menge, 1854 in Bulgaria. We identified two species from the country, namely M. arietina (Thorell, 1871) and M. macrophthalma (Kulczyński, 1897). This is the first record of M. arietina from Bulgaria. Furthermore, we report a male palpal polymorphism in M. arietina in the populations around the Black Sea. We also provide molecular support for our conclusions, combining newly generated DNA sequences with information available in GenBank.

 

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How to Cite

Indzhov, S., Haynadzhieva, V., Střeštík, V., Dimitrov, D. & Dimitrov, D. (2025) We have two of them: A review of the genus Mastigusa (Araneae: Cybaeidae) in Bulgaria. Zootaxa, 5711 (4), 579–588. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5711.4.7