First faunistic record of Tegenaria vankeerorum Bolzern, Burckhardt & Hänggi, 2013 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Turkey with description of unknown female

With this study, the Vankeer’s funnel-web spider Tegenaria vankeerorum of the family Agelenidae is recorded for the first time from Turkey. T. vankeerorum has been sampled with both sexes from Muğla and Antalya provinces, located at the Aegean and Mediterranean regions of Turkey, which was originally described on single sex (male) from Rhodos Island of Greece in 2013. The characteristics of the species, descriptions of copulatory organs and photographs (female copulatory organ for the first time) are presented. Specimens from Turkey completely resemble the original description and the female copulation organ is unique with the structure of receptacula, it can be easily identified from the other members of the genus either from the World or Turkey.