The African species of the subfamily Penestominae (Araneae: Eresidae): with descriptions of two new species
Author
Anna S. Dippenaar-Schoeman
text
Phytophylactica
1989
21
131
134
journal article
DippenaarSchoeman1989Penestominae
Penestomus planus Simon
Fig. 6
Penestomus planus
Simon, 1902: 241
:
Lehtinen, 1967
: 390,462
.
The
holotype
female was collected by
H. Brauns
from
Willowmore
,
Cape Province
(
33° 10' S
,
23° 21' E
) and deposited in the Museum National
d'Histoire
Naturelle, Paris
. The female is
7 mm
in length, slightly larger than specimens of
P. croeseri
spec. nov.
, and darker in colour. The two species resemble each other closely but
P. planus
has a calamistrum consisting of a single series of setae. The epigynum which is shown in Fig. 6 is after a drawing by
Lehtinen (1967
: Fig. 462).