Hortipes, A Huge Genus Of Tiny Afrotropical Spiders (Araneae, Liocranidae)
Author
BOSSELAERS, JAN
Author
JOCQUÉ, RUDY
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2000
2000-10-19
2000
256
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journal article
10.1206/0003-0090(2000)256<0004:HAHGOT>2.0.CO;2
0003-0090
5351417
Hortipes horta
,
new species
Figures
21g
,
22e, f
;
Map 3
TYPES: Female
holotype
: in humus in Lui
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. 256
leup) (
MRAC 092.411
).
Paratypes
:
1♀
in humus in bamboo forest, elev.
2700 m
,
Itombwe
,
Mwenge
territory,
Lungwe lake
,
Kivu
,
Congo
S03°03'
,
E28°49'
(
August 1953
;
N. Leleup
) (
MRAC
)
;
1♀
near
Talia
source N, elev.
2500 m
,
Lubero
,
Kivu
,
Congo
S00°10'
,
E29°14'
(
9 October 1952
;
R.P.J. Celis
) (
MRAC
)
;
1♀
in humus layer, elev.
1750 m
,
Butembo
,
Kivu
,
Congo
N00°09'
,
E29°17'
(
February–March 1975
;
M. Lejeune
) (
MRAC
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The species name is a noun in apposition and a patronym in honor of the famous Jugendstil architect and designer Victor Horta (1861–1947). The elegant curves and angles of the ID of the present species remind some of the Horta designs (fig. 22e, f).
DIAGNOSIS: Females are close to those of
H. hastatus
but differ from the latter species by the bluntly triangular epigynal slit, the ID not passing along the dorsal side of ST1, and the ID entering ST1 posteriorly and from the inside instead of anteriorly and from the outside.
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE:
Measurements.
Total length 2.97; carapace 1.22 long, 0.95 wide; length of fe: I 0.92, II 1.00, III 0.78, IV 1.11.
Leg spination.
Fe: I rv 2; IV plt 0 rlt 0; ti: I, II vsp 6; mt: III plt 1 vt 0 rlt 0; IV plt 1 vt 1 rlt 1.
Coloration.
Carapace, sternum, and legs yellow brown, chelicerae yellow. Abdomen pale yellow, no pattern.
Genitalia.
Epigyne a bluntly triangular slit (fig.
21g
). Vulva: ID consisting of first, straight, weakly sclerotized stretch running in frontal direction, followed by wider, more heavily sclerotized part associated with gland. Wider part connected to ST1 by very complex stretch consisting of several circular and hairpin loops completely covering ventral side of ST1 (fig. 22e, f).
DISTRIBUTION:
Kivu region
,
Congo
, from Mwenga in the south to Butembo in the north.