Revision and cladistic analysis of the Guineo-Congolian spider genus Smeringopina Kraus (Araneae, Pholcidae Author Huber, Bernhard A. text Zootaxa 2013 3713 1 1 160 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3713.1.1 935605ac-a0e6-4963-8264-b4b0ccb8568b 1175-5326 284803 C5F0BC11-92C0-4B30-9DB3-200882AC8950 Smeringopina sahoue new species Figs. 13 , 663–667 , 692–693 , 701 , 791–809 Type . ♂ holotype from Gabon , Estuaire, forest near Sahoué , N Libreville ( 0°34.6’N , 9°20.4’E ), 30 m a.s.l., 28.viii.2011 (B.A. & S.R. Huber), in ZFMK (Ar 10301). Other material examined. GABON : Estuaire : forest near Sahoué , same data as holotype , 6♂ 9♀ in ZFMK (Ar 10302); same data, 3 juvs. in pure ethanol, in ZFMK (Gab 182). Etymology. The name is a noun in apposition, derived from the type locality. Diagnosis. Distinguished from similar congeners (large species with long abdomen, cone-shaped modified hairs on male chelicerae, embolus with sclerotized proximal part, transversal light element ventrally on abdomen) by combination of: shape of massive procursus with pointed ventral branch ( Figs. 791–792 ; ventral branch larger than in S. kribi ); unmodified male clypeus (in contrast to S. kribi ); shape of sclerotized proximal part of embolus ( Figs. 794 , 798–800 ; similar to S. kribi ); distribution of modified hairs on male chelicerae ( Figs. 793 , 801 ; similar to S. kribi ); absence of frontal projections on male chelicerae; and anterior epigynal plate with small projection near rim in lateral view ( Fig. 693 ). Male ( holotype ). Total body length 8.0, carapace width 2.1. Leg 1: 79.7 (18.7 + 0.9 + 18.1 + 38.3 + 3.7), tibia 2: 11.9, tibia 3: 8.1, tibia 4: 10.9; tibia 1 L/d: 85. Distance PME-PME 170 µm, diameter PME 195 µm, distance PME-ALE 90 µm, distance AME-AME 45 µm, diameter AME 175 µm. Carapace ochre-yellow with wide brown lateral margins and brown triangular mark posteriorly connected with brown ocular area, clypeus laterally brown, sternum ochre-orange; legs light brown, dark rings subdistally on femora and tibiae and in patella area, tips of femora and tibiae whitish; abdomen ochre-gray with distinct dark pattern dorsally, laterally, and ventrally. Habitus as in Figs. 663–664 , ocular area slightly elevated, secondary eyes with distinct ‘pseudo-lenses’; clypeus unmodified but hairs longer than usual; deep thoracic pit and pair of shallow furrows diverging behind pit. Chelicerae as in Figs. 793 and 801 , with lateral proximal apophyses and long distal apophyses, the latter and frontal cheliceral face provided with several modified (cone-shaped) hairs ( Figs. 802, 806 ). Palps as in Figs. 665–667 ; coxa unmodified; trochanter with simple retrolatero-ventral apophysis; femur proximally with ventral pocket bordered retrolaterally by strong sclerotized ridge, with very small retrolateral apophysis, without prolateral modification; prolateral femur-patella joint very prominent and strongly shifted toward ventrally; tarsus with some stronger hairs dorsally; procursus with hinge between proximal and distal part, distal part with ventral branch ( Figs. 791–792 , 797 ); bulb with widened and sclerotized proximal part of embolus ( Figs. 794 , 798–800 ). Legs without spines and curved hairs, with few vertical hairs, retrolateral trichobothrium on tibia 1 at 1%; prolateral trichobothrium present on all tibiae; pseudosegments barely visible. ALS with eight spigots each; gonopore with two epiandrous spigots ( Fig. 805 ). Variation. Sternum variably dark, in some males with dark frontal area and ochre-orange posterior and lateral part. Tibia 1 in 6 other males: 16.1–18.4 (mean 17.1). Female. In general similar to male; clypeus with shorter hairs. Sternum in most females dark brown; some females with entirely dark clypeus. Tibia 1 in 9 females : 13.5–15.5 (mean 14.9). Epigynum large, consisting of wide, roughly triangular anterior plate with small projection near rim in lateral view and large posterior plate ( Figs. 692–693 , 795 , 808 ); internal genitalia as in Figs. 701 , 796 , 809 . ALS with eight spigots each ( Fig. 807 ). Natural history. At the type locality, S. sahoue was common and easily found between the buttresses of large trees. Distribution. Known from type locality only ( Fig. 627 ).