Hortipes, A Huge Genus Of Tiny Afrotropical Spiders (Araneae, Liocranidae)
Author
BOSSELAERS, JAN
Author
JOCQUÉ, RUDY
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2000
2000-10-19
2000
256
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http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0090(2000)256%3C0004%3AHAHGOT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
journal article
10.1206/0003-0090(2000)256<0004:HAHGOT>2.0.CO;2
0003-0090
5351417
Hortipes chrysothemis
,
new species
Figures 24k
,
26c
;
Map 5
TYPES: Female
holotype
: lowland rain forest, elev.
500 m
,
Etinde
,
Cameroon
(
March 1981
;
R. Bosmans
) (
MRAC
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: This small and relatively simplestructured species, of which only a single female is known, is named after Agamemnon’s daughter Chrysothemis, who led a lonely life and kept a low profile in the shadow of her brother and sisters.
DIAGNOSIS: Females are easily recognized by the short, outwardlooping ID and the globular ST1 touching each other.
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE:
Measurements.
Total length 2.30; carapace 1.03 long, 0.78 wide; length of fe: I 0.92, II 0.95, III 0.81, IV 1.05.
Leg spination.
Fe: I rv 3; IV plt 1 rlt 1; ti: I, II Chelicerae, sternum and legs yellow. Abdomen pale yellow, no pattern.
Genitalia.
Epigyne a shallow square depression with rounded corners (fig. 24k). Vulva rather simple, ID consisting of wide and thickwalled first stretch associated with gland and connected to ST1 through duct describing wide outward loop. Spermathecae 1 globular, touching each other on symmetry axis of vulva (fig. 26c).
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the
type
locality.