An unexpected occurrence: discovery of the genus Cybaeopsis Strand, 1907 in Europe with the description of a new species from Italy (Arachnida, Araneae, Amaurobiidae)
Author
Ballarin, Francesco
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1417-2519
Systematic Zoology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1 - 1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, 192 - 0397, Japan & Department of Zoology, Museo di Storia Naturale of Verona, Lungadige Porta Vittoria, 9, I- 37129 Verona, Italy
ballarin.francesco@gmail.com
Author
Pantini, Paolo
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8332-1915
Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali " E. Caffi " of Bergamo, Piazza Cittadella 10, I- 24129 Bergamo, Italy
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Zoosystematics and Evolution
2022
2022-09-20
98
2
377
385
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.98.90858
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.98.90858
1860-0743-2-377
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Cybaeopsis theoblicki (Bosmans, 2021)
comb. nov.
Callobius theoblicki
Bosmans, 2021: 879, 32-41 (♂♀).
Diagnosis.
See
Bosmans 2021
and diagnosis of
C. lodovicii
+ sp. nov.
Description.
See
Bosmans 2021
.
Distribution.
Portugal.
Habitat.
Litter of
Pinus
and
Quercus
forests at low and middle mountain range (from 160 to 890 m, see
Bosmans 2021
)
Remarks.
Cybaeopsis theoblicki
shows the typical morphological characters of
Cybaeopsis
, in particular: a retrolateral tibial apophysis ending bifurcated, three dorsal apophyses in the male palpal tibia two of which elongated and sharp, epigyne lacking a median lobe, and lateral lobes of epigyne extended laterally with a flat posterior margin. All these characters can be easily observed in the photos illustrated in
Bosmans (2021)
. The size range reported for the species (3.8-4.5 mm) further supports its affinity with the genus
Cybaeopsis
rather than
Callobius
. Based on these characters, the transfer of
C. theoblicki
to the genus
Cybaeopsis
is herein proposed.