Pavol Purgat‡§, Peter Gajdoš‡, Adrián Purkart|, Natália Hurajtovᇧ, Ľubomír Volnár |, Katarína Krajčovičová|Corresponding author: Pavol Purgat ( nrukpapu@savba.sk ) Academic editor: Yuri Marusik © Pavol Purgat, Peter Gajdoš, Adrián Purkart, Natália Hurajtová, Ľubomír Volnár , Katarína Krajčovičová. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Purgat P, Gajdoš P, Purkart A, Hurajtová N, Volnár Ľ, Krajčovičová K (2021) Walckenaeria stylifrons and Spiracme mongolica (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Thomisidae), two new species to Slovakia. Check List 17(6): 1601-1608. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.6.1601 |  |
The spiders Walckenaeria stylifrons (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) and Spiracme mongolica (Schenkel, 1963) are reported from Slovakia for the first time. These new records are based on adult males found in Western Slovakia in xerothermic habitats. The occurrence of W. stylifrons in Slovakia fills the gap in its distribution in Pannonian Basin and between Austria and Ukraine. Spiracme mongolica has been known only from the Balkans and south-eastern part of Europe to central Asia, this is the first record for Central Europe. We suggest Spiracme mongolica (Schenkel, 1963) new combination for Xysticus mongolicus Schenkel, 1963. Characteristic features, photographs of habitus and copulatory organs, and habitats of the new records are presented.