Revision and cladistic analysis of the Guineo-Congolian spider genus Smeringopina Kraus (Araneae, Pholcidae Author Huber, Bernhard A. text Zootaxa 2013 3713 1 1 160 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3713.1.1 935605ac-a0e6-4963-8264-b4b0ccb8568b 1175-5326 284803 C5F0BC11-92C0-4B30-9DB3-200882AC8950 Smeringopina tebe new species Figs. 26 , 133–137 , 167, 177 , 225–239 Type . ♂ holotype from Gabon , Ogooué-Ivindo, N Tébé ( 0°02.3’S , 13°40.9’E ), 550 m a.s.l., forest along brook, 17.viii.2011 (B.A. & S.R. Huber), in ZFMK (Ar 10201). Other material examined. GABON : Ogooué-Ivindo : N Tébé , same data as holotype , 8♂ 3♀ 1 juv. in ZFMK (Ar 10202); same data, 2♀ 1 juv. in pure ethanol, in ZFMK (Gab 164). Etymology. The name is a noun in apposition, derived from the type locality. Diagnosis. Easily distinguished from congeners by highly distinctive frontal apophyses on male chelicerae ( Figs. 228–229 , 232 ) and by pair of (probably functionally corresponding) deep pockets in anterior epigynal plate ( Fig. 230 ). Male ( holotype ). Total body length 3.8, carapace width 1.2. Leg 1: 38.1 (8.8 + 0.4 + 9.1 + 18.0 + 1.8), tibia 2: 5.5, tibia 3: 3.8, tibia 4: 5.7; tibia 1 L/d: 89. Distance PME-PME 125 µm, diameter PME 115 µm, distance PME- ALE 60 µm, distance AME-AME 25 µm, diameter AME 95 µm. Carapace ochre-yellow with brown triangular mark posteriorly and brown lateral margins; ocular area posteriorly brown, clypeus and sternum brown; legs light brown, femora with dark rings subdistally, tibiae with dark rings proximally and subdistally; abdomen ochre-gray with dark pattern dorsally, laterally, and ventrally, ventral dark bands with lateral constriction. Habitus as in Figs. 133–134 , ocular area slightly elevated, secondary eyes with indistinct ‘pseudo-lenses’; clypeus with pointed and slightly hooked apophysis between AME and rim; deep thoracic pit and pair of shallow furrows diverging behind pit. Chelicerae as in Figs. 228–229 , with lateral apophyses in very distal position, with distinctive frontal apophyses consisting of anterior lobe with granulate surface and posterior lobe with smooth surface ( Figs. 232– 233 ), without modified hairs. Palps as in Figs. 135–137 ; coxa with distinct retrolateral apophysis; trochanter barely modified; femur with large retrolateral apophysis directed toward ventrally, with sclerotized hump at prolateral joint to trochanter, with weakly sclerotized ventral projection distally; prolateral femur-patella joint strongly shifted toward ventrally; tarsus with some longer and slightly stronger hairs dorsally, tarsal organ capsulate and on short stalk ( Fig. 235 ); procursus as in Figs. 225–226 , with complex membranous and sclerotized structures ventrally ( Figs. 234, 236 ), without hinge; bulb with simple weakly sclerotized process ( Fig. 227 ; sperm duct apparently opens at basis of this process). Legs without spines and curved hairs, with few vertical hairs; retrolateral trichobothrium on tibia 1 at 2%; prolateral trichobothrium present on all tibiae; pseudosegments barely visible. ALS with eight spigots each ( Fig. 237 ); gonopore with two epiandrous spigots ( Fig. 238 ). Variation. Some males with indistinct additional (third) wide darker ring on tibiae. Tibia 1 in 8 other males: 8.0–9.3 (mean: 8.7). Female. In general similar to male; clypeus unmodified. Tibia 1 in three females: 6.0, 6.3, 6.3. Epigynum anterior plate triangular with pair of deep pockets ( Figs. 167 , 230 ); posterior plate laterally with overhanging folds; internal genitalia as in Figs. 177 , 231 , 239 . Natural history. Litter-dwelling species, very common in humid litter near a brook at the type locality. Distribution. Known from type locality only ( Fig. 114 ).