New ground-spider genera and species with annexed checklist of the Gnaphosidae (Araneae) of Israel
Author
Levy, Gershom
text
Zootaxa
2009
2066
1
49
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.186952
4239119c-102b-417f-b91e-619957e061c1
1175-5326
186952
Leptopilos manolisi
(Chatzaki, 2002)
n. comb.
Figs 23–26
Leptodrassus manolisi
Chatzaki, 2002a
: 592
, figs 70, 71, ♂ from Crete.
Hitherto unknown mate: Adult female from Sedot
Mikha
,
Israel
, leg. Yael Mandelik,
May 14, 2002
, pitfall trap (HUJ15569).
Description.
Yellow coloured rather delicate spiders. Chelicerae with 3–5 small denticles.
Male.
Measurements (5 ɗɗ): total length 1.5–2.2; carapace length 0.7–1.1, width 0.6–0.7, index 1.50–1.66; labial index 0.54–0.62; clypeal index 1.0; MOQ index 5.0; legs length: I 2.6–3.0, II 2.0–2.5, III 1.8–2.0, IV 2.9–3.4; patella-tibia index 0.9–1.1.
Palpus.
Small with tips of fine sclerites barely distinguishable apart from a blackish, S-shaped lamina (
Fig. 23
); nearly triangular tibial apophysis with one uneven side (
Fig. 24
).
Female
. Measurements (2ΨΨ): total length 1.9–2.2; carapace length 0.9–1.0, width 0.7–0.9, index 1.11–1.29; labial index 0.44–0.53; clypeal index 1.0; MOQ index 5.0–6.0; legs length: I 2.4–2.6, II 2.1–2.5, III 1.7–2.0, IV 3.2; patella-tibia index 0.88–0.90.
Epigynum
.
Cap-like hood lies anteriorly; spermathecal structures discern along sides of narrow median cavity (
Fig. 25
); dorsal inner view of spermathecae as in
Fig. 26
.
Diagnosis.
Leptopilos manolisi
,
in general, slightly resembles
L. levantinus
but the two are clearly separated by the shape of the male palpal sclerites and the form of the tibial apophysis, and by the shape of the epigynal plate and spermathecae of the female.
Distribution
. Crete,
Israel
- new record. Records.
Israel
: Sedot
Mikha
,
Adullam
.
Comment.
Males and females were collected together by pitfall traps, revealing thus the unknown female.