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
Talanitoides
n. gen.
Type-species:
Talanitoides habesor
n. sp.
Etymology.
The generic name refers to the close resemblance to
Talanites
Simon.
Diagnosis.
Carapace with short fovea and small subequal eyes; PME nearly circular. Labium appreciably longer than wide. Sternum of ordinary form. Legs with sparse scopulae, without preening comb, trochanters not notched. Opisthosoma with barely visible dorsal scutum in male. Palpus of male with thick mesal embolus, bulky median apophysis and large, remarkable tibial apophysis (
Figs 53, 54
).
Epigynum
of female with anterior sclerotic hood and globular spermathecae (
Figs 55, 56
).
Comments
. The male palpal configuration of
Talanitoides
with the thick embolus resembles
Talanites
species closely.
Talanitoides
,
however, differs by the rather elongated labium, by the male palpus lacking a membranous conductor and a frontal tegular outgrowth and by bearing a remarkable tibial apophysis unlike the short, retrolaterally directed tibial apophysis of
Talanites
(
Levy, 1999a, figs 11–13
).