An update on the ant-mimicking genus Corinnomma Karsch, 1880 (Araneae, Corinnidae, Castianeirinae)
Author
Sankaran, Pradeep M.
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-03-14
5254
4
534
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5254.4.5
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5254.4.5
1175-5326
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Corinnomma plumosum
(
Thorell, 1881
)
Figs 3
,
5C
Corinna plumosa
Thorell, 1881: 216
(♁).
Castaneira plumosa
Simon, 1897: 167
(
lapsus
).
Corinnomma plumosa
Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001: 305
, 397.
Type material.
Holotype
♁ from
INDONESIA
:
Moluccas
/
Maluku Islands
:
Ternate
(
00°48′N
,
127°20′E
;
1104 m
a.s.l.
), date unknown, leg.
O. Beccari
, repository
MSNG
(no register number), examined based on photographs.
Diagnosis.
Males of
C
.
plumosum
are closely related to those of
C
.
severum
in having a long embolus, but can be distinguished from the latter species by the presence of a wide cymbial retrobasal process (vs. absent in
C
.
severum
), strongly spiralled embolus (vs. weakly in
C
.
severum
), and obliquely oriented loop of sperm duct (vs. longitudinally oriented in
C
.
severum
) (cf.
Figs 3C–D
,
5C
with
Figs 4C–E
,
5D
).
Redescription.
Male
(
holotype
,
Fig. 3A–B
) in alcohol (somatic features after
Thorell (1881))
. Prosoma pitchblack, unevenly covered with greenish-grey feathery setae, almost twice as long as its width, with thoracic striae. Fovea short, distinct. AER strongly recurved, PER strongly procurved (
Fig. 3B
); ALEs oblong, all other eyes round (
Fig. 3B
). Sternum pitch-black, sub-elliptical, pubescent. Opisthosoma subovate, black, with median, transverse constriction (
Fig. 3A
), with three transverse greenish-grey stripes. Anterior legs brownish, posterior blackish, with greenish-grey spots and stripes on all femora. Body length 7.0.
Pedipalp
(
Figs 3C–D
,
5C
): cymbium retrobasally with flat, triangular process, retrobasal paracymbial spine shifted apically onto this process (
Fig. 3C
). Tegulum pearshaped, with less coiled sperm duct having obliquely oriented loop (
Fig. 3C
). Embolus moderately long, forming open spiral, with broad proximal part and blunt tip directed at 11-o’clock in ventral view (
Figs 3C
,
5C
).
Female
. Unknown.
Distribution.
Indonesia
(
Moluccas
) (
Thorell 1881
).