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Material: 1) 2 females "Phlegra lineata C. Koch Smyrna Bottle 1788, t. 26 (2)" 2) 2 males Phlegra lineata C. Koch "Bottle 1788 t.126 (2) Smyrna" "117" All: O.P.-Cambridge coll. in the Hope Entomological Collection, Oxford.

Diagnosis. Resembles Phlegra fasciata, but less contrasting coloured; female with grooves of epigyne more narrowly separated, number of chambers of spermathecae smaller; male palpal tibia dorsal apophysis broader and shorter.

MALE

Cephalothorax. Eye field dark brown, covered with adpressed lighter setae, brownish and colourless, longer setae along anterior edge, thorax and sides in one specimen almost uniformly brown, in the second sides and area behind eyes III are somewhat lighter yellowish brown. Abdomen brownish suffused darker greyish brown, almost bald with remnants of of qadpressed whitish and more upright brown setae, no distinct traces of stripped pattern; sides ligther brownish grey. Spinnerets brownish grey.

Frontal aspect. Eye field appears dark brown, clypeus and chelicerae light yellowish brown, no striking, contrasting setae; sparse colourless setae present on clypeus do not change its general colouration, a few long brownish bristles stretching horizontally under AME. Eyes I surrounded with whitish setae, dorsally mixed up with slightly longer and thicker brown setae.

Pedipalps yellowish brown, with light, pale fawn setae on cymbium. Bulbus pale yellow, dorsal tibial apophyses separated by an "U" shaped space, dorsal one relatively broad, ends triangularly; ventral apophysis sclerotized, ends broadly truncated, apically with a tiny ventral lobe articulating with a bent plate like process of the cymbium.

Legs: tarsi, metatarsi, tibiae I-IV brown, patellae I-IV light brown; femora I-IV much lighter, yellow, I-II whitish yellow, slightly darker apically. Ventral aspect: chelicerae, coxae and sternum yellow to yellowish brown, abdomen whitish grey.

FEMALE

Cephalothorax brown, with light yellow stripes along dorso lateral edge of thorax, eye field dark brown with with whitish adpressed setae. Sides light brown, ventrally lighter, edge brown. Abdomen with three stripes of equal width: median white and two lateral brownish fawn, all covered with adpressed setae, corresponding in colour with pigmentation, spinnerets brown. Legs brown, prolateral surfaces of femora I-IV light yellow, femur I retrolaterally black dotted, apically brown; femora III-IV with broad, dark annuli medially and apically.

Frontal aspect: eye field appears dark brown with numerous, short upright bristles brown, face light brown, with large light yellow spots under ALE, clypeus suffused grey, eyes I surrounded with white setae; setae on clypeus colourless, do not influence general appearance. Chelicerae yellow, slightly bulging, narrowing apically, with sparse colourless setae. Pedipalps and legs anterior give stripped appearance, brown and lighter brown. Ventral aspect: pale yellow with colourless setae; abdomen grey with lighter longitudinal streaks, covered with whitish setae, spinnerets brown.

Epigyne with grooves round, very narrowly separated, narrower than in Ph. fasciata, number of chambers in spermathecae smaller.