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 Simon Cybeodes Simon, 1878 : 205 (type species by monotypy Cybeodes testaceus Simon ). Cybaeodes : Simon, 1893 : 387 (corrected spelling, original name based on the generic name Cybaeus , which was also misspelled as Cybeus by Simon, 1878 : 206). Cerrutia Roewer, 1960 : 88 (type species by original designation Cerrutia molara Roewer ). NEW SYNONYMY. DIAGNOSIS: Cybaeodes can easily be recognized by the combined presence of gnaphosid-like anterior lateral spinnerets in males (but not females) and two ventral rows of modified setae on the anterior legs of both sexes. The extremely small eyes (see Roewer, 1960 : Fig. la) seem also to be diagnostic (both of the cavernicolous species C . molara and the other, presumably epigean species), and we would not be surprised to find that blind, cavemicolous members of Cybaeodes occur in Mediterranean caves. DESCRIPTION: To the detailed descriptions provided by Roewer (1960) and Di Franco (1989) , we can add that the trichobothrial bases bear several chevron-shaped ridges ( Fig . 9 ), that the tarsal organ is elongate, with a round opening and elevated receptors (Fig. 10), and that the male palpal tibia bears a small prolateral lobe (as in Liocranum and Hesperocranum ). Figs. 23-26. 23, 24. Cybaeodes marinae Di Franco. 25, 26. C . sardus , new species . 23 . Left male palp, ventral view. 24. Same, retrolateral view. 25 . Epigynum, ventral view . 26 . Epigynum, dorsal view. SYNONYMY: Roewer's redescription of the genus can probably be ascribed to Simon's lack of Cybaeodes males and his association of the genus more closely with gnaphosids than with other liocranids.