A new spider of the genus Troglohyphantes (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from a Turkish cave

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A new species of Troglohyphantes Joseph, 1881 is described from Turkey. Differences between the new species and related species are discussed. The morphological characters to distinguish this species from the closely related species are indicated and illustrated. Notes on the habitat and some SEM photographs of this species arc also given.
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) [106T133]
We are very grateful to Dr Andrei V. TANASEVITCH (Russia) and Dr Fulvio GASPARO (Italy) for advice and valuable comments, and we acknowledge the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) for financial support of this work (Project No. 106T133). We also wish to thank Mr. Hakan DEMIR (Gazi University, Ankara), who collected some of the material used in this paper.