<documentid="7F03156B26D5FA603EC024EB84277768"ID-CLB-Dataset="32195"ID-DOI="10.5852/ejt.2015.121"ID-GBIF-Dataset="7d852af3-8081-473d-98d3-4ab4e09d3c0f"ID-Zenodo-Dep="885459"ID-ZooBank="737E4245-5F88-4699-AE8E-A9699D0A20A1"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.treatments_approvedBy="guilherme"checkinTime="1504631830287"checkinUser="jeremy"docAuthor="Polotow, Daniele & Jocqué, Rudy"docDate="2015"docId="03FECC7AFFD5FFA1FDFFF987FD36F866"docLanguage="en"docName="ejt-121.pdf.imf"docOrigin="European Journal of Taxonomy 121"docSource="http://www.europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/243/0"docStyle="DocumentStyle:EF2B578F1D15862ADE45B0C07C620911.14:EJT.2018-.journal_article.type1"docStyleId="EF2B578F1D15862ADE45B0C07C620911"docStyleName="EJT.2018-.journal_article.type1"docStyleVersion="14"docTitle="Afroneutria quadrimaculata, sp. nov."docType="treatment"docUuid="0FF06727-624D-465E-ACA1-8A9CEFB12A50"docUuidSource="ZooBank"docVersion="14"lastPageNumber="19"masterDocId="FFC7B402FFDAFFB3FFC2FFC4FFD4FFE2"masterDocTitle="Afroneutria, a new spider genus of Afrotropical Ctenidae (Arachnida, Araneae)"masterLastPageNumber="27"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="16"updateTime="1734111812260"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<taxonomicNameid="4C5706EFFFD5FFBCFDFFF987FC40F9BC"ID-CoL="65GRW"authority="Polotow & Jocqué, 2015"box="[573,916,1603,1630]"class="Arachnida"family="Ctenidae"genus="Afroneutria"higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL"kingdom="Animalia"order="Araneae"pageId="15"pageNumber="16"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="quadrimaculata"status="sp. nov.">
<figureCitationid="136C61E9FFD5FFBCFDFCF94EFD51F946"box="[574,645,1674,1700]"captionStart="Fig. 8"captionStartId="16.[189,232,1965,1991]"captionTargetBox="[311,1274,263,1918]"captionTargetId="figure@16.[311,1276,259,1922]"captionTargetPageId="16"captionText="Fig. 8. Afroneutria quadrimaculata sp. nov. Habitus. A. ♂, dorsal view. B. ♂, ventral view. C. ♀, dorsal view. D. ♀, ventral view. Scale bars = 2 mm."httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/885475/files/figure.png"pageId="15"pageNumber="16">Figs 8</figureCitation>
A–D,
<figureCitationid="136C61E9FFD5FFBCFD0CF94EFD08F946"box="[718,732,1674,1700]"captionStart="Fig. 9"captionStartId="17.[189,232,1928,1954]"captionTargetBox="[333,1280,263,1882]"captionTargetId="figure@17.[302,1285,250,1898]"captionTargetPageId="17"captionText="Fig. 9. Afroneutria quadrimaculata sp. nov. — A – C. Male palp. A. Ventral view. B. Retrolateral view. C. Retrolateral tibial apophysis, lateral view. — D – E. Female genitalia. D. Epigynum, ventral view. E. Vulva, dorsal view. Scale bars = 2 mm."httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/885477/files/figure.png"pageId="15"pageNumber="16">9</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="136C61E9FFD5FFBCFC06F94EFC34F946"box="[964,992,1674,1700]"captionStart="Fig. 16"captionStartId="24.[189,232,1929,1955]"captionTargetBox="[272,1315,265,1883]"captionTargetId="figure@24.[272,1316,265,1884]"captionTargetPageId="24"captionText="Fig. 16. Distribution records of species of Afroneutria gen. nov. on theAfrican continent. A. Distribution of A. velox (Blackwall, 1865) comb. nov., A. immortalis (Arts, 1912) comb. nov. and A. quadrimaculata sp. nov. B. Distribution of A. erythrochelis (Simon, 1876) comb. nov. and A. hybrida sp. nov."httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/885491/files/figure.png"pageId="15"pageNumber="16">16</figureCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="EFC6009DFFD5FFBCFEB3F90FFD94F904"author="Benoit P. L. G."box="[369,576,1739,1766]"journalOrPublisher="Revue zoologique africaine"pageId="15"pageNumber="16"pagination="698 - 703"part="91"refId="ref9961"refString="Benoit P. L. G. 1977. Etudes sur les Ctenidae africains (Araneae) V. Gen. Ctenus Walck. - groupe erythrochelis. Revue zoologique africaine 91: 698 - 703."title="Etudes sur les Ctenidae africains (Araneae) V. Gen. Ctenus Walck. - groupe erythrochelis"type="journal article"year="1977">Benoit 1977: 700</bibRefCitation>
differ from those of the other species of the genus by the laminar embolus with enlarged tip and the curved, subdistal, additional projection of the embolus (
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A). The females can be distinguished by the large and elongated lateral projections of the epigynum and the curved dorsal spermathecae in the vulva (
<figureCitationid="136C61E9FFD5FFBCFCBCF861FC13F85D"box="[894,967,1957,1983]"captionStart="Fig. 9"captionStartId="17.[189,232,1928,1954]"captionTargetBox="[333,1280,263,1882]"captionTargetId="figure@17.[302,1285,250,1898]"captionTargetPageId="17"captionText="Fig. 9. Afroneutria quadrimaculata sp. nov. — A – C. Male palp. A. Ventral view. B. Retrolateral view. C. Retrolateral tibial apophysis, lateral view. — D – E. Female genitalia. D. Epigynum, ventral view. E. Vulva, dorsal view. Scale bars = 2 mm."httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/885477/files/figure.png"pageId="15"pageNumber="16">Figs 9</figureCitation>
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-1-1-1-2, r1- 1-1, p1-1-1. Coloration: venter of abdomen black with four white spots, two behind epigastric furrow, two in front of spinnerets (
<figureCitationid="136C61E9FFC8FFA1FE39FB37FD96FAEF"box="[507,578,1267,1293]"captionStart="Fig. 8"captionStartId="16.[189,232,1965,1991]"captionTargetBox="[311,1274,263,1918]"captionTargetId="figure@16.[311,1276,259,1922]"captionTargetPageId="16"captionText="Fig. 8. Afroneutria quadrimaculata sp. nov. Habitus. A. ♂, dorsal view. B. ♂, ventral view. C. ♀, dorsal view. D. ♀, ventral view. Scale bars = 2 mm."httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/885475/files/figure.png"pageId="18"pageNumber="19">Fig. 8</figureCitation>
B). Palp: cymbium slightly longer than tibia; conductor oval; median apophysis curved (
<figureCitationid="136C61E9FFC8FFA1FE5BFAD2FE36FAD2"box="[409,482,1302,1328]"captionStart="Fig. 9"captionStartId="17.[189,232,1928,1954]"captionTargetBox="[333,1280,263,1882]"captionTargetId="figure@17.[302,1285,250,1898]"captionTargetPageId="17"captionText="Fig. 9. Afroneutria quadrimaculata sp. nov. — A – C. Male palp. A. Ventral view. B. Retrolateral view. C. Retrolateral tibial apophysis, lateral view. — D – E. Female genitalia. D. Epigynum, ventral view. E. Vulva, dorsal view. Scale bars = 2 mm."httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/885477/files/figure.png"pageId="18"pageNumber="19">Figs 9</figureCitation>
-1-1- 1-2, r1-1-1, p1-1-1. Coloration: as in male (
<figureCitationid="136C61E9FFC8FFA1FD0FF9EEFCC0F9A7"box="[717,788,1578,1605]"captionStart="Fig. 8"captionStartId="16.[189,232,1965,1991]"captionTargetBox="[311,1274,263,1918]"captionTargetId="figure@16.[311,1276,259,1922]"captionTargetPageId="16"captionText="Fig. 8. Afroneutria quadrimaculata sp. nov. Habitus. A. ♂, dorsal view. B. ♂, ventral view. C. ♀, dorsal view. D. ♀, ventral view. Scale bars = 2 mm."httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/885475/files/figure.png"pageId="18"pageNumber="19">Fig. 8</figureCitation>
C–D). Epigynum: with triangular median field and elongated lateral projections of lateral fields (
<figureCitationid="136C61E9FFC8FFA1FD12F98AFCCEF98A"box="[720,794,1614,1640]"captionStart="Fig. 9"captionStartId="17.[189,232,1928,1954]"captionTargetBox="[333,1280,263,1882]"captionTargetId="figure@17.[302,1285,250,1898]"captionTargetPageId="17"captionText="Fig. 9. Afroneutria quadrimaculata sp. nov. — A – C. Male palp. A. Ventral view. B. Retrolateral view. C. Retrolateral tibial apophysis, lateral view. — D – E. Female genitalia. D. Epigynum, ventral view. E. Vulva, dorsal view. Scale bars = 2 mm."httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/885477/files/figure.png"pageId="18"pageNumber="19">Figs 9</figureCitation>
B). Dorsal spermathecae long, curved, ventral spermathecae short (
<figureCitationid="136C61E9FFC8FFA1FE6DF9B5FE21F969"box="[431,501,1649,1675]"captionStart="Fig. 9"captionStartId="17.[189,232,1928,1954]"captionTargetBox="[333,1280,263,1882]"captionTargetId="figure@17.[302,1285,250,1898]"captionTargetPageId="17"captionText="Fig. 9. Afroneutria quadrimaculata sp. nov. — A – C. Male palp. A. Ventral view. B. Retrolateral view. C. Retrolateral tibial apophysis, lateral view. — D – E. Female genitalia. D. Epigynum, ventral view. E. Vulva, dorsal view. Scale bars = 2 mm."httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/885477/files/figure.png"pageId="18"pageNumber="19">Fig. 9</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="136C61E9FFC8FFA1FDAAF8ADFD68F866"box="[616,700,1897,1924]"captionStart="Fig. 16"captionStartId="24.[189,232,1929,1955]"captionTargetBox="[272,1315,265,1883]"captionTargetId="figure@24.[272,1316,265,1884]"captionTargetPageId="24"captionText="Fig. 16. Distribution records of species of Afroneutria gen. nov. on theAfrican continent. A. Distribution of A. velox (Blackwall, 1865) comb. nov., A. immortalis (Arts, 1912) comb. nov. and A. quadrimaculata sp. nov. B. Distribution of A. erythrochelis (Simon, 1876) comb. nov. and A. hybrida sp. nov."httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/885491/files/figure.png"pageId="18"pageNumber="19">Fig. 16</figureCitation>