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,
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.
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, pl. 24, fig. 1.
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.
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<emphasis box="[181,340,885,905]" italics="true" pageId="53" pageNumber="66">Nigorella plebeja</emphasis>
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<paragraph blockId="53.[181,346,921,946]" box="[181,346,921,946]" pageId="53" pageNumber="66">Redescription:</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="53.[181,1142,963,1084]" pageId="53" pageNumber="66">Measurements (male/female): Carapace length 3.53.7/4.44.7, width 2.83.0/3.13.6, height 1.21.5/1.71.8. Abdomen length 3.43.9/6.46.6, width 2.12.4/4.24.7. Eye field length 1.31.4/1.6, anterior width 2.02.1/2.12.3, posterior width 2.12.2/2.4 2.7.</paragraph>
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<emphasis box="[181,247,1102,1126]" italics="true" pageId="53" pageNumber="66">Male.</emphasis>
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General appearance in
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. Medium-sized, dark, hairy spider; carapace oval, medium high, gently sloping posteriorly, dark brown; eye field short, black; fovea visible; dark, short hairs densely cover carapace, with numerous long bristles near eyes; clypeus low, dark, with black hairs. Chelicerae large, black, unidentate; endites and labium dark brown with narrow whitish margins.Abdomen narrower than carapace, dark brown with traces of lighter patches medially; dense long dark hairs on abdomen; venter dark, with four longitudinal lines composed of yellowish dots; spinnerets dark. Legs dark brown; first pair of legs slightly stouter than others, with dark scopulae on tarsi; leg hairs long, dark brown. Pedipalp dark; tibial apophysis straight, tegulum rounded, with small anterior haematodocha (
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); embolus short, enveloped by tegular apophysis (
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).
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<emphasis box="[181,273,1508,1532]" italics="true" pageId="53" pageNumber="66">Female.</emphasis>
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Larger than male. General colouration dark brown to black, vicinity of fovea slightly lighter; whole body covered with short, dark hairs; clypeus with few white hairs; three parallel lighter bands on cheeks, below anterior lateral eyes. Labium with narrow white tip, endites with wide pale inner margins. Abdomen broader than carapace, brownish grey, pattern formed by a patchwork of small dark patches; venter dark, with four longitudinal lines formed with light dots. Epigyne strongly sclerotised, with two widely spaced rounded depressions and broad posterior pocket (
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); internal structure simple, initial part of seminal ducts with very thick walls (
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).
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Figs 127131.
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: (127) palpal organ, ventral view; (128) palpal organ, lateral view; (129) embolic division, ventrolateral view; (130) epigyne; (131) internal structure of epigyne.
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Material examined: 1^Crocodile Farm, Pongola
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54.426'S
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19.185'E
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bark,
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(
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1^Near Fontana Camp,
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52.072'S
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09.545'E
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,
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savannah, leaf litter,
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(
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55.275'S
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17.947'E
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, broadleaf savannah, leaf litter,
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(
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/2744); 1ơ Northern shore of Nyamiti Pan,
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53.192'S
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:
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32
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18.272'E
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, under logs,
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.
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Distribution: Species known from
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; recorded for the first time from
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.
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Habitat and biology: This species was collected from the ground in leaf litter or under logs, and on one occasion from under bark, in
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, AX, BW and FP.
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Remarks: The species is very similar to
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<emphasis box="[607,760,1518,1542]" italics="true" pageId="54" pageNumber="67">N. aethiopica</emphasis>
Wesolowska &amp; Tomasiewicz, 2008
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, but is smaller; the male differs by the shape of the tibial apophysis, which is longer and has a single tip (bifid in
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<emphasis box="[525,672,1582,1606]" italics="true" pageId="54" pageNumber="67">N. aethiopica</emphasis>
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), and the female epigyne has a strongly sclerotised initial part of the seminal ducts (compare
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herein with figs 134 and
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Wesolowska &amp; Tomasiewicz 2008).
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