Revision and cladistic analysis of the Afrotropical endemic genus Smeringopus Simon, 1890 (Araneae: Pholcidae) Author HUBER, BERNHARD A. text Zootaxa 2012 2012-09-07 3461 1 1 138 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3461.1.1 journal article 53629 10.11646/zootaxa.3461.1.1 664d9cee-5b75-4788-a394-6b35a37de652 1175­5334 6415657 0704C43A-73D8-4A28-915A-7FF8611C8606 Smeringopus oromia new species Figs. 173–174, 181 , 188–189 , 198–199 , 225–230 Type. Male holotype from Ethiopia , Oromia Region , Lake Langano [~ 7°36’N , 38°41’E ], under stones, short grass near hotel, 24.x.1982 ( A. Russell-Smith ), in ZFMK ( Ar 8552 ) . Etymology. The name is a noun in apposition, derived from the type locality. Diagnosis. Distinguished from similar congeners (other species of the arambourgi species group and S. pallidus ) by tip of procursus ( Figs. 225–227 ), shapes of bulbal processes ( Figs. 228, 229 ; simple semitransparent dorsal projection shorter and wider than in S. arambourgi ), and epigynum shape ( Fig. 198 ; similar S. arambourgi and S. saruanle ). Male ( holotype ). Total body length 3.6, carapace width 1.5. Leg 1: 23.9 (6.1 + 0.6 + 6.1 + 9.7 + 1.4), tibia 2: 4.2, tibia 3: 3.2, tibia 4: 4.8; tibia 1 L/d: 43. Habitus as in Figs. 173 and 174 . Carapace with narrow median and lateral marks, clypeus with pair of dark marks, sternum light brown with darker margins and darker frontal half, legs monochromous ochre-yellow, abdomen ochre-gray with dark dorsal and ventral pattern. Distance PME-PME 135 µm, diameter PME 105 µm, distance PME-ALE 55 µm, distance AME-AME 45 µm, diameter AME 90 µm. Ocular area slightly elevated, secondary eyes with barely visible ‘pseudo-lenses’; deep thoracic pit. Chelicerae very similar S. saruanle (cf. Fig. 236 ), with pair of small distal apophyses. Palps as in Figs. 188 and 189 , coxa without retrolateral apophysis, trochanter barely modified, femur with shallow retrolateral furrow, cymbium with small projection near tarsal organ, procursus with distinctive tip ( Figs. 225–227 ), bulb with sclerotized embolus and simple semitransparent dorsal process ( Figs. 228, 229 ). Legs without spines, few vertical hairs, with curved hairs on metatarsi 1–2 (many hairs missing), retrolateral trichobothrium on tibia 1 at 3%; prolateral trichobothrium present on tibia 1. Variation. Ventral abdominal pattern in other male indistinct and irregular (artifact?); tibia 1 in this male: 7.5. Female. In general similar to male but both females with very distinct dark subdistal rings on femora and tibiae; tibia 1 in 2 females : 5.6, 6.4. Epigynum a simple flat plate without pockets, lateral whitish areas separated from median part by black marks, posterior part without or with very indistinct darker areas ( Fig. 198 ); internal genitalia as in Figs. 199 and 230 . Distribution. Known from two localities in central and northern Ethiopia ( Fig. 204 ). Material examined. ETHIOPIA : Oromia Region : Lake Langano : 1♂ holotype above, together with 1♀ . Tigray Region : Alomata [=Alamat’a, 12°25’N , 39°33’E ], 5000 ft a.s.l. , 16.i.1960 ( E.S. Ross ), 1♂ 1♀ in CAS .