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 centralis
,
new species
Figures 27c
,
29a, b
;
Map 1
TYPES:
Female
holotype
: humus in swamp forest,
Coquilhatville
,
Ikela region
,
Lusosa River
20 km
N of Ikela
,
Congo
S01°11'
,
E23°16'
(
August 1959
;
N. Leleup
) (
MRAC 127.745
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The species is named
centralis
because it was collected in the central part of
Congo
, the socalled
cuvette centrale
.
DIAGNOSIS: Females are easily recognized by the simple epigyne combined with very complex, heavily looped IDs almost completely hiding the ST from view.
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE:
Measurements.
Total length 2.59; carapace 1.13 long, 0.92 wide; length of fe: I 0.95, II?, III 0.78, IV 1.13.
Leg spination.
Fe: I rv 2–3; IV plt 0 rlt 1; ti: I, II vsp 6; mt: III plt 1 vt 0 rlt 0; IV plt 1 vt 2 rlt 1.
Coloration.
Carapace and legs yellow, chelicerae and sternum pale yellow. Abdomen peach, without pattern, rather densely covered with thin, pointed grey setae.
Genitalia.
Epigyne restricted to two hemicircular ID entrances, situated anterior to ST and close to symmetry axis (fig. 27c). Vulva: first stretch of ID wide, thick walled, and associated with gland, connected to ST1 through complex sequence of horseshoe loops and coils, 2 Χ passing along dorsal side of ST1
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the
type
locality.