New species and interesting new records of spiders from Seychelles (Arachnida, Araneaea)
Author
Saaristo, Michael I.
text
Phelsuma
2002
10
1
32
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.824148
79d22dc4-916c-4f10-a085-4b796c63dd68
1026-5023
824148
Aridella
n. gen.
Type
species:
Aridella bowleri
n. sp.
Etymology: The generic name is derived from the name of the
type
locality of its ty p e species, considered feminine in gender.
Diagnosis: According to its heavily sclerotized, pitch black palps with entirely fused cymbium and bulbus the genus resembles
Brignolia Dumitresco & Georgesco, 1983
and
Lisna
Saaristo 2001
but the structure of bulbal elements of the male palp are more like in
Opopaea
s. str.
which, on the other hand, has normally sclerotized male palps with strongly swollen palpal patella, Also the large, oval-shaped, shallow depression on sternum may be of generic value.