The stone huntsman spider genus Eusparassus (Araneae: Sparassidae): systematics and zoogeography with revision of the African and Arabian species
Author
Moradmand, Majid
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Zootaxa
2013
2013-06-17
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3675.1.1
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Eusparassus borakalalo
spec. nov.
Figs 34
,
55c
,
64g
Type material.
Holotype
:
female,
SOUTH AFRICA
:
Limpopo Province
:
Borakalalo Nature Reserve
,
Rust
de Winter
,
S 25.15
˚,
E 28.29
˚, in grass,
April 1986
,
M. Filmer
leg. (
PPRI 87
/137,
MM65
).
Paratype
(
1♀
):
SOUTH AFRICA
:
Gauteng Province
:
1♀
, Johannesburg,
October 1995
,
A. Harrington
leg. (
PPRI 2001
/94,
MM68
)
.
Etymology.
The species is named after the
type
locality; noun in apposition.
Diagnosis.
This species is the only known member of the
jaegeri
-group whose EF is distinctly wider than long (
Figs 34a, f
) [see also diagnosis for
jaegeri
species group above].
Description Female
(n=2) [
holotype
first with measurements of
paratype
in parenthesis]:
Measurements.
Medium sized; total length 12.1, prosoma length 6.4 (5.7), prosoma width 5.7 (4.9), anterior width of prosoma 3.4 (3.1), opisthosoma length 9.3 (7.0), opisthosoma width 5.1 (4.5). Eye diameters: AME 0.41, ALE 0.30, PME 0.28, PLE 0.33; eye interdistances: AME-AME 0.27, AME-ALE 0.11, PME-PME 0.48, PME- PLE 0.50, AME-PME 0.25, ALE-PLE 0.23, clypeus height at AME 0.30, clypeus height at ALE 0.35. AME largest (~1.4 times larger), others subequal (
Fig. 34e
).
Chelicerae.
Chelicerae with 2 anterior and 4 or 5 posterior teeth (2 or 3 larger teeth followed by smaller ones), cheliceral furrow with a median line of 8 to 10 intermarginal denticles (
Fig. 34d
).
Legs.
Leg formula: II IV I III. Measurements of palp and legs: Palp 7.0 [2.1, 1.2, 1.5, 2.2], I 22.3 [5.9, 3.0, 5.3, 6.1, 2.0], II 24.9 [7.0, 3.0, 6.2, 6.7, 2.0], III 20.5 [5.7, 2.5, 4.8, 5.1, 1.8], IV 23.1 [6.1, 2.5, 6.1, 6.4, 2.0].
Spination
. Palp 131, 001, 1111, 1013; Legs: Femur I–III 323, IV 321(322); Patella I–IV 000; Tibia I–IV 0004/ 2024; Metatarsus
I–III 2024
, IV 3036/3034.
Epigyne/vulva.
As in diagnosis with AMLL straight (
Fig. 34a
) or with bulge (
Fig. 34f
), posterior margin of LL expanded laterally (
Fig. 34a
); CD slender and in connection with membranous MS, TL visible in dorsal view (
Fig. 34b
); glandular pores restricted to small circular depression on vulva (
Fig. 34c
).
Colouration
[in ethanol]. Yellowish brown, opisthosoma darker dorsally with a line of small dark chevrons (
Fig. 55c
).
Male
. Unknown.
Known geographical distribution and habitat.
South Africa
(central), sympatric in some area with
E. jaegeri
spec. nov.
, collected in grass.