Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae
Author
Huber, Bernhard A.
Author
Colmenares, Pío A.
Author
Ramirez, Martin J.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3847
3
413
422
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3847.3.5
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1175-5326
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Crossopriza
Simon, 1893
Crossopriza
Simon, 1893b
: 476
–477.
Tibiosa
González-Sponga, 2006
: 10–11. Synonymized by
Huber (2009)
.
Ceratopholcus
Spassky, 1934
: 361
;
type
species:
Ceratopholcus maculipes
Spassky, 1934
;
new synonymy.
Justification of synonymy.
Crossopriza maculipes
(
Spassky, 1934
)
new combination
.
The
type
specimens (from
Uzbekistan
,
Turkmenistan
, and
Tajikistan
) seem to be lost. Spassky’s original description suggests a species very similar (or even identical) to
Crossopriza lyoni
(Blackwall, 1867)
. The examination (by BAH) of numerous specimens of
Crossopriza
from
Uzbekistan
,
Turkmenistan
,
Tajikistan
,
Afghanistan
, and
Pakistan
(mostly in ZMMU) has shown that
C. maculipes
is indeed very similar to but also clearly distinguishable from
C. lyoni
. The two species share a second pair of apophyses frontally on the male chelicerae (a putative synapomorphy of a species group that also includes
C. johncloudsleyi
Deeleman-Reinhold
& van Harten, 2001 and several undescribed species; it is not present in the
type
species
C. pristina
Simon, 1890
). Geographically,
C. maculipes
and
C. lyoni
do not seem to overlap, and the only other species of
Crossopriza
in the area mentioned above is an undescribed species with very different cheliceral armature and epigynum (definitely not the species described and illustrated by
Spassky 1934
).