Hortipes, A Huge Genus Of Tiny Afrotropical Spiders (Araneae, Liocranidae)
Author
BOSSELAERS, JAN
Author
JOCQUÉ, RUDY
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2000
2000-10-19
2000
256
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http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0090(2000)256%3C0004%3AHAHGOT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
journal article
10.1206/0003-0090(2000)256<0004:HAHGOT>2.0.CO;2
0003-0090
5351417
Hortipes bjorni
,
new species
Figure 21a, b
;
Map 2
TYPES:
Male
holotype
:
Kimboza forest
, elev.
250 m
,
Uluguru Mountains
,
Tanzania
(
18 July 1981
;
M. Stoltze
and
N. Scharff
) (
ZMUC
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The species name is a patronym in honor of Per de Place Bjørn, student of African spiders.
DIAGNOSIS: Males of
H. bjorni
are recognized by the peculiar RTA with two prongs, a dorsal slender one with a hookshaped tip and a short, sharp ventrolateral one.
I 0.84, II 0.89, III 0.68, IV 0.95.
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, chelicerae, sternum, and legs pale yellow. Abdomen yellowish white, no pattern.
Palp.
Tibia with welldeveloped RTA provided with two prongs: one long, slender, dorsal with twisted, hookshaped tip, second retrolateral, short, with wide base and thin sharp tip; cymbium with large, retrolateral concavity with series of widely spaced long setae; sperm duct with wide basal part and narrow distal part with Sshaped turn just in front of embolus; MA fairly small, with broad curved proximal part and strongly curved, slender distal part; embolus with broad, roughly triangular base, long, whiplike, looped over almost 360° (fig. 21a, b).
FEMALE: Unknown.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the
type
locality.