On The Relationships of the Spider Genus Cybaeodes (Araneae, Dionycha)
Author
Platnick
Author
Di Franco
text
American Museum Novitates
1992
3053
1
9
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.814924
5e4a2df9-66ca-4e41-958c-8570bd384325
ISSN0003-0082
814924
Cybaeodes carusoi
,
new species
Figures 19, 20
TYPE:
Holotype
male
taken at an elevation of
400 m
on
Pic des Singes (
Bejaia
)
,
Algeria
(
Nov. 3, 1984
,
I. Marcellino
), deposited in
MCSN
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of Dr. Domenico Caruso, organizer of the expedition on which the type was collected.
DIAGNOSIS: Males of this species can be recognized by the presence of two tibial apophyses: the larger is retrolateral, long, and triangular, the smaller dorsal and medially placed (Fig. 20); the median apophysis is large, rectangular, with a small hook, curved ventrally, on its apical medial edge (
Fig. 19
).
MALE: Total length 2.96. Carapace 1.48 long, 1.1 1 wide. Femur 11 1.1 1 long. Eye sizes and interdistances:
AME
0.05, ALE 0.07, PME 0.07, PLE 0.07; AME-AME 0.02, AME- ALE 0.01, PME-PME 0.06, PME-PLE 0.09, ALE-PLE 0.02; MOQ length 0.16, front width 0.14, back width 0. 16. Leg spination: femora II p0-0- 1; III rO-0- 1; IV p0-0- 1, rO-0- 1; tibiae II
v1 -2
-1. Bulb with unexpanded embolar base, short and thick embolar projection, dorsally with another, more slender projection; conductor with lateral long peak on its apical edge (
Fig. 19
); palp with two tibial apophyses (
Fig. 20
).
FEMALE: Unknown.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Algeria.