Two new species of Phalangium (Opiliones: Phalangiidae) from Turkey Author Kurt, Kemal Author Erdek, Melek Author Kurt, Pinar text Zootaxa 2023 2023-10-27 5360 3 429 436 https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5360.3.6/52126 journal article 278339 10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.6 a3e86df3-1097-443b-9750-f8b3de0c5f30 1175-5326 10151737 5D421474-9AB9-4031-82AC-D96FDE43A1B1

TABLE 1. Comparative distinction of morphologically related species from the genus Phalangium.

Species	Distal segment of	Pedipalp	Leg I	Glans penis	Distribution
	chelicera			(laterally)
P. armatum	with long apophysis	long, covered with	thickened	oval shape	Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran
	(Snegovaya 2014)	longitudinal rows of	(Snegovaya 2014)	(Snegovaya 2005)	(Snegovaya 2014; Kurt et al.
		tubercles (Snegovaya 2014)			2015; Snegovaya et al. 2018;
					Cokendolpher et al. 2019)
P. savignyi	with long apophysis	long, covered with setae	slightly thickened	Triangular shape	Israel, Egypt, Jordan,
	(Snegovaya 2008)	(Snegovaya 2008)	(Snegovaya 2008)	(Snegovaya 2008)	Lebanon, Turkey (Snegovaya
					2008; Kurt 2014a)
P. martensi	with long apophysis	long, covered with setae	not thickened	somewhat triangular	Iran (Snegovaya et al. 2021)
	(Snegovaya et al.	(Snegovaya et al. 2021)	(Snegovaya et al.	shape (Snegovaya et
	2021)		2021)	al. 2021)
P. punctipes	without apophysis	long, femur dorsally and	over thickened	oval shape	Azerbaijan, Armenia,
	(Tchemeris 2012;	basally with tubercles	(Tchemeris 2012)	(Tchemeris 2012;	Cyprus, Georgia, Israel,
	Snegovaya 2014)	(Tchemeris 2012;		Snegovaya 2014)	Russia, Syria, Turkey,
		Snegovaya 2014)			Ukraine (Tchemeris 2012;
					Kurt & Erman 2015)
P. riedeli	without apophysis	covered with setae Kurt	thickened (Kurt	rounded (Kurt	Syria, Turkey (Staręga 1973;
	(Kurt 2014b)	2014b)	2014b)	2014b)	Kurt 2014b)
P. yurisnegovoyi	without apophysis	not long, covered with	Slightly thickened	triangular shape	Turkey (Snegovaya 2022)
	(Snegovaya 2022)	setae (Snegovaya 2022)	(Snegovaya 2022)	(Snegovaya 2022)
P. opilio	with long apophysis	long, covered with hairs	not thickened	Oval shape	almost the entire holoarctic
	(Snegovaya 2014)	(Snegovaya 2014)	(Snegovaya 2014)	(Snegovaya 2014)	region (Snegovaya 2022)
P. nalanae n. sp.	with long apophysis	long, covered with	not thickened	triangular shape	Turkey
		denticles
P. taylani n. sp.	with long apophysis	long, covered with	thickened	oval shape	Turkey
		sparce setae and sparce
		microdenticles