Mistaria

Description. See Kioko et al. 2018: 112

Diagnosis. Males of the genus Mistaria can be separated from those of Agelena by the presence of a large translucent fulcrum in the former species (Fig. 1 B) which is absent in Agelena species; a spine-like embolus and thumb-like conductor in Mistaria (Fig. 1 B) compared to a short, thick and grooved conductor in Agelena species (see fig. 5 in Zhang et al. 2005). Females can be separated by the absence of spermathecal apophysis in Mistaria (Fig. 2 A) and absence of epigynal teeth in the females of Agelena (see fig. 3 in Zhang et al. 2005). Mistaria shares similarities with three other genera from the subfamily Ageleninae i. e Agelescape Levy, 1996, Hololena Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1929 and Rualena Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942. The shared characters include the presence of a fulcrum in the palp of males and epigine teeth in the females (Lehtinen 1967; Maya-Morales and Jimenez 2016). Males of Mistaria can be distinguished from those of Agelescape by the absence of a tegular apophysis between the conductor and the median apophysis and two patella apophyses present in Mistaria (see fig. 1 in Guseinov et al. 2005; Fig. 1 B, C); from the males of Hololena by the presence of a patella apophysis which is absent in the latter (Fig. 1 C) and from the males of Rualena by the absence of conductor projections in the former genus (see fig. 12 in Maya-Morales and Jimenez 2016). Females of Mistaria can be separated from those of Agelescape by the absence of a scape found in the latter genus (see fig. 13 in Guseinov et al. 2005); from those of Hololena by the more posterior position in the epigynal teeth in the latter genus (see fig. 8 in Chamberlin and Ivie 1942) and from those of Rualena by the absence of copulatory openings and hyaline spurs in the former genus (see fig. 40 in Maya-Morales and Jimenez 2016).