Further notes on the fossorial wolf spiders of Middle Asia and the Near East (Aranei: Lycosidae)

The paper presents new taxonomic-faunistic data on 25 species of the fossorial Lycosidae (Aranei) from Middle Asia and the Near East. The lectotype male is designated for Tarentula fedotovi Charitonov, 1946. New combinations have been pro-posed for four species: Alopecosa nigriventris (Schmidt, 1895), comb.n., stat.n. (ex Lycosa), Asiacosa ambigua Denis, 1947, comb.n. (ex Arctosa), A. asiatica Sy-tshevskaja, 1980, comb.n. (ex Lycosa), and A. kulagini Spassky, 1941, comb.n. (ex Lycosa). One genus - Asiacosa gen.n. (Central Asia) - and 10 species are described as new to science: viz., Alopecosa darvaz sp.n. (?; Tajikistan), A. pamirica sp.n. (?; Tajikistan), A. safidorak sp.n. (?; Tajikistan), A. zonsteini sp.n. (d?; Uzbekistan), Asiacosa babatagh sp.n. (?; Uzbeki-stan), Karakumosa ferganensis sp.n. (?; Uzbekistan), K. ovtchinnikovi sp.n. (d?; Uzbekistan), K. severtsovi sp.n. (?; Tajikistan), Lycosa uzbekistanica sp.n. (?; Uzbekistan), Zyuzicosa kvak sp.n. (d?; Tajikistan). The name Karakumosa golestanica Shafaie, Nadolny et Mirshamsi, 2022, syn.n. is synonymized with K. turanica Logunov et Ponomarev, 2020. The unknown male is described for Lycosa aragogi Nadolny et Za-mani, 2017 from Iran.How to cite this paper: Logunov D.V. 2023. Fur-ther notes on the fossorial wolf spiders of Middle Asia and the Near East (Aranei: Lycosidae) // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.32. No.4. P.475-512. doi: 10.15298/arth-sel.32.4.12