Revision of Pseudocorinna Simon and a new related genus (Araneae: Corinnidae): two more examples of spider templates with a large range of complexity in the genitalia
Author
Jocqué, Rudy
Author
Bosselaers, Jan
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2011
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00679.x
journal article
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00679.x
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CRINOPSEUDOA PAUCIGRANULATA
SP. NOV.
(
FIGS 57A, B
,
59I
and
62
)
Type material:
Holotype
:
Female
:
CAMEROON
:
Mt. Cameroon
, near
Buea
,
04°12′N
,
09°11′E
,
23.iii.1981
,
2100 m
,
pitfall
, montane grassland near forest,
Bosmans
&
Van Stalle
(
MRAC 162119
).
Paratype
:
CAMEROON
:
1 ♀
: same locality as holotype,
23.iii.1981
,
1800 m
, montane forest with fern trees,
pitfall
,
Bosmans
&
Van Stalle
(
MRAC 162126
)
.
Diagnosis:
Females of
P. paucigranulata
are recognized by the poorly developed warts on the carapace and the epigyne with a dark straight posterior margin with a small central indentation.
Etymology:
The species name is an adjective referring to the reduced number of small warts on the carapace.
Description:
Female (
holotype
, MRAC 162119). Total l 5.60.
Carapace yellow-brown, covered with thinly dispersed tiny warts, l: 2.25; w: 2.00. Sternum smooth, l: 1.20; w: 1.25. Abdomen greyish brown, without do scutum. Legs yellow, not warted.
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-0-1-1 pl 0-1-0; II 0-1-0; III do 0-1-0; IV do 0-1-0; ti: I ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2; III pl 0-1-0 rl 0-1-0 ve 0-2-0; IV pl 1-0-1 rl 1-0-1 ve 0-2-0; mt: I ve 2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2; III pl 1-0-0 ve 2-0-2; IV pl 1-0-0 rl 1-0-0 ve 2-0-2.
Epigyne (
Figs 57A, B
,
59I
): a featureless darkened area with black transverse line in centre of posterior margin and small central indentation; lateral lobes hardly pronounced. Copulatory openings on either side of posterior margin. Internal structure dominated by large lobate ducts.
Male unknown.
Known geographical distribution:
Guinea
(
Fig. 62
).