A revision of the genus Pochyta Simon, with descriptions of new species (Araneae: Salticidae: Thiratoscirtina)
Author
Wesołowska, Wanda
0000-0002-4411-1058
Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51 - 148 Wrocław, Poland helena. wesolowska @ uwr. edu. pl; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4411 - 1058
helena.wesolowska@uwr.edu.pl
Author
Szűts, Tamás
0000-0001-8954-0641
Department of Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest, Rottenbiller u. 50, Budapest, 1077, Hungary szuts. tamas @ univet. hu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8954 - 0641
szuts.tamas@univet.hu
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-10-13
5052
1
1
41
journal article
4035
10.11646/zootaxa.5052.1.1
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1175-5326
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Kibo
gen. n.
Type
species:
Pochyta simoni
Lessert, 1925
Etymology.
The generic name is derived from
locus typicus
of the
type
species of this genus,
Kilimanjaro
Kibo
volcanic massif. Gender neuter.
Diagnosis and affinities.
Kibo
is a medium-sized salticid with an oval carapace, high in cephalic part, and a trapezoid eye field with the distance between anterior lateral eyes slightly larger than between the posterior laterals. The chelicera is unidentate, with a big tooth on the retrolateral edge. The
type
species was formerly placed in
Pochyta
, but pattern of leg I spination is different from that in this genus: there are three pairs of ventral spines on tibia and two pairs on metatarsus, these spines are shorter than in
Pochyta
. The genus
Kibo
is characterized by the structure of the genitalia. The male palpal organ has an oval bulb divided by longitudinal fossa into two lobes and a ribbon-like embolus with the base set between these lobes. The epigyne has relatively small spermathecae and membranous seminal ducts. The body proportions and the presence of a tarsal retrolateral spine on the female palp confirm that the genus is related to the other members of the subtribe
Thiratoscirtina
of the tribe
Aelurillini (sensu
Maddison 2015a
)
. Thiratoscirtines are a large group of salticids, very diverse in the Afrotropics, and their phylogeny is yet to be applied to morphological characters, homology hypotheses and synapomorphies. The phylogenetic relationships of
Kibo
without any sequence data is presently difficult even to speculate.