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Description

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Description. Male. Total length 3.4-3.65. Carapace 1.4-1.5 long, 1.5-1.6 wide, femur I 3.0-3.1 long, femur/carapace length ratio 2.1-2.14. Body yellow-light brown with pattern formed by brown hairs and spots. Carapace with brownish eye area and posterior cephalic part, and brown vertical stripe on clypeus (Figs 1.2, 2.2). Margins of carapace brown. Abdomen with indistinct pattern. Legs with broad, dark annulations, dark rings wider than light ones. Femur I almost entirely dark. Coxae IV separated by one diameter. Palp as in Figs 3.1, 4.4, 5.4, 6.6-7, with femur, patella+tibia and cymbium subequal in length, tibia in terminal part slightly wider than femur. Tegulum discoid, with long filiform embolus and tegular apophysis. Embolus starts at about 01 hrs, makes a loop of more than 270° and terminates around 10 hrs. Tegular apophysis perpendicular to tegulum. Apical part of the bulb slightly fl attened (embolus straight, not rounded).
Female. Total length 3.75-4.0. Carapace 1.4-1.5 long, 1.5-1.6 wide, femur I 2.25- 2.5 long, femur/carapace length ratio 1.6. Colouration as in female. Epigyne as in Figs 7.10-12, 8.4. Median plate anchor-like, with a pair of small accessory sclerites on the side that visually makes the basal part wider; spermathecae and seminal duct translucent through the integument. Accessory gland digitiform.
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A survey of East Palaearctic Hersiliola Thorell, 1870 (Araneae, Hersiliidae), with a description of three new genera.
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Distribution

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Distribution. The species is known only from two nearby localities in eastern Uzbekistan.
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