Hortipes, A Huge Genus Of Tiny Afrotropical Spiders (Araneae, Liocranidae)
Author
BOSSELAERS, JAN
Author
JOCQUÉ, RUDY
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2000
2000-10-19
2000
256
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http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0090(2000)256%3C0004%3AHAHGOT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
journal article
10.1206/0003-0090(2000)256<0004:HAHGOT>2.0.CO;2
0003-0090
5351417
Hortipes terminator
,
new species
Figure 27h, i
;
Map 1
TYPES:
Male
holotype
: humus in forest near
Sengi
source,
Kwango
,
Feshi region
,
Kianza
,
Congo
,
S06°13'
,
E19°15'
(
March 1959
;
J. Leleup
) (
MRAC 113.586
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The species is named
terminator
because the male RTA, observed from the ventral side, looks like a futuristic gun.
DIAGNOSIS: Males of
H. terminator
are recognized by the complex RTA with flat, translucent frontal part and short, sharp, upwardcurved tip on inferior prong; the MA lacks a median flap.
MALE:
Measurements.
Total length 2.54; carapace 1.16 long, 0.89 wide; length of fe: I 0.95, II?, III 0.81, IV 1.24.
Leg spination.
Fe: I rv 2; IV plt 1 rlt 1; ti: I, II vsp 6; mt: III plt 1 vt 1 rlt 1; IV plt 1 vt 2 rlt 1.
Coloration.
Carapace yellow ochre, with darker, radiating striae and a brown line at the fovea. Tibia with large, flat, translucent RTA composed of two parts, both standing out; frontal and superior one long, with bifid tip, one tip pointing forward, the other one downward; posterior and inferior part with short, sharp tip, curved upward; cymbium with large, retrolateral bend with series of widely spaced long setae in distal half; tegulum with retrolateral swelling at base of embolus; sperm duct with wide basal part and thin distal part with sharp, deep turn; MA solid, gradually tapered from thick basal to tip, distal part curved down; embolus with fairly broad, triangular base, long, whiplike, looped over more than 540° (fig. 27h, i).
FEMALE: Unknown.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the
type
locality.