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<mods:title>A new species of Poachelas from Maputaland, South Africa (Araneae: Corinnidae), with considerable range extension for Poachelas striatus</mods:title>
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<taxonomicName ID-CoL="4KN66" authority="Haddad, 2010" authorityName="Haddad" authorityYear="2010" box="[521,736,1151,1177]" class="Arachnida" family="Trachelidae" genus="Poachelas" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="1" pageNumber="314" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="refugus" status="sp. n.">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[521,736,1151,1177]" pageId="1" pageNumber="314">Poachelas refugus</emphasis>
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<figureCitation box="[613,710,1191,1217]" captionStart-0="Figs 1–4" captionStart-1="Figs 5–7" captionStartId-0="2.[144,183,1192,1214]" captionStartId-1="3.[183,222,523,545]" captionTargetBox-0="[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetBox-1="[188,1135,221,494]" captionTargetId-0="figure-117@2.[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetId-1="figure-459@3.[181,1141,204,514]" captionTargetPageId-0="2" captionTargetPageId-1="3" captionText-0="Figs 1–4. Digital microscope photographs of Poachelas refugus sp. n., holotype female: (1) dorsal habitus; (2) sternum, ventral, slightly lateral view, showing intercoxal sclerites (Is) and precoxal triangles (Pt); (3) anterior legs, prolateral view, indicating femoral (FeS), patellar (PaS), tibial (TiS), metatarsal (MtS), tarsal (TaS) spines and trichobothria (Tr); (4) femur (distal), patella and tibia (proximal) of leg I enlarged, prolateral view, showing spines (SP) and spinules (sp). Scale bars = 1.0 mm in Fig. 1, 0.5 mm in Figs 2–4." captionText-1="Figs 5–7.Poachelas refugus sp.n. paratype female:(5) eye region, anterior view; (6) epigyne, ventral view; (7) vulva, dorsal view. Scale bars = 0.2 mm." figureDoi-0="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7913545" figureDoi-1="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7913549" httpUri-0="https://zenodo.org/record/7913545/files/figure.png" httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/7913549/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="314">Figs 1–7</figureCitation>
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Etymology: The species name is Latin for fugitive, and refers to adults that evaded capture for several years during field trips at the
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locality.
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Diagnosis: This species is similar in size to
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<emphasis box="[684,822,1304,1329]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="314">P. montanus</emphasis>
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from
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but can be separated from
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<emphasis box="[637,775,1336,1361]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="314">P. montanus</emphasis>
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by the distinct abdominal stripe (
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<figureCitation box="[190,255,1367,1393]" captionStart="Figs 1–4" captionStartId="2.[144,183,1192,1214]" captionTargetBox="[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetId="figure-117@2.[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figs 1–4. Digital microscope photographs of Poachelas refugus sp. n., holotype female: (1) dorsal habitus; (2) sternum, ventral, slightly lateral view, showing intercoxal sclerites (Is) and precoxal triangles (Pt); (3) anterior legs, prolateral view, indicating femoral (FeS), patellar (PaS), tibial (TiS), metatarsal (MtS), tarsal (TaS) spines and trichobothria (Tr); (4) femur (distal), patella and tibia (proximal) of leg I enlarged, prolateral view, showing spines (SP) and spinules (sp). Scale bars = 1.0 mm in Fig. 1, 0.5 mm in Figs 2–4." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7913545" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7913545/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="314">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
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) and presence of strong spines on the anterior legs (
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<figureCitation box="[845,947,1367,1393]" captionStart="Figs 1–4" captionStartId="2.[144,183,1192,1214]" captionTargetBox="[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetId="figure-117@2.[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figs 1–4. Digital microscope photographs of Poachelas refugus sp. n., holotype female: (1) dorsal habitus; (2) sternum, ventral, slightly lateral view, showing intercoxal sclerites (Is) and precoxal triangles (Pt); (3) anterior legs, prolateral view, indicating femoral (FeS), patellar (PaS), tibial (TiS), metatarsal (MtS), tarsal (TaS) spines and trichobothria (Tr); (4) femur (distal), patella and tibia (proximal) of leg I enlarged, prolateral view, showing spines (SP) and spinules (sp). Scale bars = 1.0 mm in Fig. 1, 0.5 mm in Figs 2–4." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7913545" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7913545/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="314">Figs 3, 4</figureCitation>
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), which are erect setae in
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<emphasis box="[271,406,1400,1425]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="314">P. montanus</emphasis>
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. Females of
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<emphasis box="[547,656,1399,1425]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="314">P. refugus</emphasis>
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can be further recognised from others in the genus by the anteriorly directed looping copulatory ducts and small anterior ST II (
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<figureCitation box="[215,315,1463,1489]" captionStart="Figs 5–7" captionStartId="3.[183,222,523,545]" captionTargetBox="[188,1135,221,494]" captionTargetId="figure-459@3.[181,1141,204,514]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="Figs 5–7.Poachelas refugus sp.n. paratype female:(5) eye region, anterior view; (6) epigyne, ventral view; (7) vulva, dorsal view. Scale bars = 0.2 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7913549" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7913549/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="314">Figs 6, 7</figureCitation>
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). This species belongs to the
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<taxonomicName authorityName=": Haddad & Lyle" authorityYear="2008" box="[643,851,1463,1489]" class="Arachnida" family="Trachelidae" genus="Poachelas" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="1" pageNumber="314" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="striatus">
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<emphasis box="[643,851,1463,1489]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="314">Poachelas striatus</emphasis>
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species group, defined by the presence of strong ventral leg spines in both sexes (
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).
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<paragraph blockId="1.[181,1142,1151,1674]" box="[181,321,1535,1561]" pageId="1" pageNumber="314">Description:</paragraph>
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<emphasis box="[181,265,1575,1601]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="314">Female</emphasis>
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.
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<paragraph blockId="1.[181,1142,1151,1674]" lastBlockId="2.[144,1104,1388,1671]" lastPageId="2" lastPageNumber="315" pageId="1" pageNumber="314">Measurements: CL 1.08–1.24, CW 0.87–0.99, AL 1.40–1.70, AW 0.83–1.00, TL 2.48– 2.80, FL 0.12–0.15, SL 0.68–0.73, SW 0.55–0.59, AME–AME 0.04, AME–ALE 0.01, ALE–ALE 0.20, PME–PME 0.07, PME–PLE 0.05, PLE–PLE 0.32. Length of leg segments: I 1.00+0.49+0.83+0.65+0.37= 3.34; II 0.84+0.44+0.65+0.56+0.32= 2.81; III 0.59+0.37+0.41+0.49+0.29 =2.15; IV 0.95+0.41+0.84+0.86+0.37= 3.43.</paragraph>
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Figs 1–4. Digital microscope photographs of
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<emphasis box="[551,717,1192,1213]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="315">Poachelas refugus</emphasis>
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, holotype female: (1) dorsal habitus; (2) sternum, ventral, slightly lateral view, showing intercoxal sclerites (Is) and precoxal triangles (Pt); (3) anterior legs, prolateral view, indicating femoral (FeS), patellar (PaS), tibial (TiS), metatarsal (MtS), tarsal (TaS) spines and trichobothria (Tr); (4) femur (distal), patella and tibia (proximal) of leg I enlarged, prolateral view, showing spines (SP) and spinules (sp). Scale bars = 1.0 mm in Fig. 1, 0.5 mm in Figs 2–4.
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Carapace, including eye region, bright yellow, with pale grey stripe from PER to fovea, with short transverse extension near posterior end of marking (
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<figureCitation box="[917,982,1516,1542]" captionStart="Figs 1–4" captionStartId="2.[144,183,1192,1214]" captionTargetBox="[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetId="figure-117@2.[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figs 1–4. Digital microscope photographs of Poachelas refugus sp. n., holotype female: (1) dorsal habitus; (2) sternum, ventral, slightly lateral view, showing intercoxal sclerites (Is) and precoxal triangles (Pt); (3) anterior legs, prolateral view, indicating femoral (FeS), patellar (PaS), tibial (TiS), metatarsal (MtS), tarsal (TaS) spines and trichobothria (Tr); (4) femur (distal), patella and tibia (proximal) of leg I enlarged, prolateral view, showing spines (SP) and spinules (sp). Scale bars = 1.0 mm in Fig. 1, 0.5 mm in Figs 2–4." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7913545" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7913545/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="315">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
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); carapace flattened, slightly elevated from PER to fovea, with highest point at fovea, sloping gently to posterior; surface smooth, with scattered short fine setae; fovea indistinct, lying in shallow median depression, at ⅔ carapace length. Eyes surrounded by black rings; AER procurved, lateral eyes very slightly larger than medians (
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); clypeus height equal to ⅔ AME diameter; AME separated by ½ their diameter; AME separated from ALE by approximately ⅛ AME diameter; PER recurved (
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<figureCitation box="[756,820,645,671]" captionStart="Figs 1–4" captionStartId="2.[144,183,1192,1214]" captionTargetBox="[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetId="figure-117@2.[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figs 1–4. Digital microscope photographs of Poachelas refugus sp. n., holotype female: (1) dorsal habitus; (2) sternum, ventral, slightly lateral view, showing intercoxal sclerites (Is) and precoxal triangles (Pt); (3) anterior legs, prolateral view, indicating femoral (FeS), patellar (PaS), tibial (TiS), metatarsal (MtS), tarsal (TaS) spines and trichobothria (Tr); (4) femur (distal), patella and tibia (proximal) of leg I enlarged, prolateral view, showing spines (SP) and spinules (sp). Scale bars = 1.0 mm in Fig. 1, 0.5 mm in Figs 2–4." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7913545" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7913545/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
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), median eyes slightly larger than laterals; PME separated by approximately ⅞ their diameter; PME separated from PLE by ⅔ PLE diameter. Chelicerae pale yelloworange; anterior surface smooth, with scattered short fine setae; promargin and retromargin each with two small subequal teeth, each pair situated close together. Sternum creamyyellow, yellowbrown along border; surface smooth, covered in fine setae (
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); precoxal triangles present; intercoxal sclerites only present between endite and coxa I, and between coxa I and II (
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<figureCitation box="[1057,1128,837,863]" captionStart="Figs 1–4" captionStartId="2.[144,183,1192,1214]" captionTargetBox="[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetId="figure-117@2.[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figs 1–4. Digital microscope photographs of Poachelas refugus sp. n., holotype female: (1) dorsal habitus; (2) sternum, ventral, slightly lateral view, showing intercoxal sclerites (Is) and precoxal triangles (Pt); (3) anterior legs, prolateral view, indicating femoral (FeS), patellar (PaS), tibial (TiS), metatarsal (MtS), tarsal (TaS) spines and trichobothria (Tr); (4) femur (distal), patella and tibia (proximal) of leg I enlarged, prolateral view, showing spines (SP) and spinules (sp). Scale bars = 1.0 mm in Fig. 1, 0.5 mm in Figs 2–4." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7913545" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7913545/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
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). Abdomen creamy, with distinct dark grey dorsal median stripe running the length of abdomen (
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<figureCitation box="[300,365,901,927]" captionStart="Figs 1–4" captionStartId="2.[144,183,1192,1214]" captionTargetBox="[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetId="figure-117@2.[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figs 1–4. Digital microscope photographs of Poachelas refugus sp. n., holotype female: (1) dorsal habitus; (2) sternum, ventral, slightly lateral view, showing intercoxal sclerites (Is) and precoxal triangles (Pt); (3) anterior legs, prolateral view, indicating femoral (FeS), patellar (PaS), tibial (TiS), metatarsal (MtS), tarsal (TaS) spines and trichobothria (Tr); (4) femur (distal), patella and tibia (proximal) of leg I enlarged, prolateral view, showing spines (SP) and spinules (sp). Scale bars = 1.0 mm in Fig. 1, 0.5 mm in Figs 2–4." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7913545" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7913545/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
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); abdomen elongate, 1½ times longer than wide, broadest at ⅜ times its length; dorsal scutum absent; surface covered in short fine setae; two pairs of oval sigilla present, first pair indistinct, at ¼ abdomen length, second pair distinct, near ½ abdomen length (
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<figureCitation box="[379,446,997,1023]" captionStart="Figs 1–4" captionStartId="2.[144,183,1192,1214]" captionTargetBox="[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetId="figure-117@2.[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figs 1–4. Digital microscope photographs of Poachelas refugus sp. n., holotype female: (1) dorsal habitus; (2) sternum, ventral, slightly lateral view, showing intercoxal sclerites (Is) and precoxal triangles (Pt); (3) anterior legs, prolateral view, indicating femoral (FeS), patellar (PaS), tibial (TiS), metatarsal (MtS), tarsal (TaS) spines and trichobothria (Tr); (4) femur (distal), patella and tibia (proximal) of leg I enlarged, prolateral view, showing spines (SP) and spinules (sp). Scale bars = 1.0 mm in Fig. 1, 0.5 mm in Figs 2–4." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7913545" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7913545/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
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); venter without sclerites. Legs I to IV yellow, anterior pairs slightly darker than posteriors; patellae, tibiae and metatarsi of leg I dark orangebrown, of leg II slightly tinged with grey mottling (
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<figureCitation box="[675,743,1061,1087]" captionStart="Figs 1–4" captionStartId="2.[144,183,1192,1214]" captionTargetBox="[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetId="figure-117@2.[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figs 1–4. Digital microscope photographs of Poachelas refugus sp. n., holotype female: (1) dorsal habitus; (2) sternum, ventral, slightly lateral view, showing intercoxal sclerites (Is) and precoxal triangles (Pt); (3) anterior legs, prolateral view, indicating femoral (FeS), patellar (PaS), tibial (TiS), metatarsal (MtS), tarsal (TaS) spines and trichobothria (Tr); (4) femur (distal), patella and tibia (proximal) of leg I enlarged, prolateral view, showing spines (SP) and spinules (sp). Scale bars = 1.0 mm in Fig. 1, 0.5 mm in Figs 2–4." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7913545" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7913545/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
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); all segments of anterior legs with several spines or spinules (
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<figureCitation box="[470,566,1093,1119]" captionStart="Figs 1–4" captionStartId="2.[144,183,1192,1214]" captionTargetBox="[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetId="figure-117@2.[151,1096,206,1172]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figs 1–4. Digital microscope photographs of Poachelas refugus sp. n., holotype female: (1) dorsal habitus; (2) sternum, ventral, slightly lateral view, showing intercoxal sclerites (Is) and precoxal triangles (Pt); (3) anterior legs, prolateral view, indicating femoral (FeS), patellar (PaS), tibial (TiS), metatarsal (MtS), tarsal (TaS) spines and trichobothria (Tr); (4) femur (distal), patella and tibia (proximal) of leg I enlarged, prolateral view, showing spines (SP) and spinules (sp). Scale bars = 1.0 mm in Fig. 1, 0.5 mm in Figs 2–4." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7913545" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7913545/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">Figs 3, 4</figureCitation>
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), posterior pairs without spines or spinules; leg cusps on anterior legs absent; metatarsi and tarsi with weak scopulae, remaining leg segments covered in short fine setae; all tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi with several dorsal trichobothria; metatarsi III and IV with terminal preening comb. Leg spination: femora: I
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<emphasis box="[1016,1038,1189,1215]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">pl</emphasis>
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4 spines,
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6 spinules; patellae: I
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4, II
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2; tibiae: I
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12
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<emphasis box="[784,815,1221,1247]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">rlv</emphasis>
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12, II
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<emphasis box="[888,922,1221,1247]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">plv</emphasis>
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9
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9; metatarsi: I
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<emphasis box="[181,215,1253,1279]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">plv</emphasis>
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8
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<emphasis box="[243,274,1253,1279]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">rlv</emphasis>
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8, II
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<emphasis box="[334,368,1253,1279]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">plv</emphasis>
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8
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8; tarsi: I
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<emphasis box="[541,575,1253,1279]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">plv</emphasis>
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9
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<emphasis box="[602,633,1253,1279]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">rlv</emphasis>
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5 spinules, II
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<emphasis box="[792,826,1253,1279]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">plv</emphasis>
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5–8
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<emphasis box="[884,915,1253,1279]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">rlv</emphasis>
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4 spinules. Epigyne with copulatory openings situated posteriorly in short semicircular ridges (
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<figureCitation box="[1025,1126,1285,1311]" captionStart="Figs 5–7" captionStartId="3.[183,222,523,545]" captionTargetBox="[188,1135,221,494]" captionTargetId="figure-459@3.[181,1141,204,514]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="Figs 5–7.Poachelas refugus sp.n. paratype female:(5) eye region, anterior view; (6) epigyne, ventral view; (7) vulva, dorsal view. Scale bars = 0.2 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7913549" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7913549/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">Figs 6, 7</figureCitation>
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); copulatory ducts directed anteriorly, looping before entering small oval anterior ST II, with transverse duct connecting ST II to lateral bilobed ST I.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="3.[183,1141,522,569]" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">
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Figs 5–7.
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<taxonomicName authority="Haddad, 2010" authorityName="Haddad" authorityYear="2010" box="[270,436,523,544]" class="Arachnida" family="Trachelidae" genus="Poachelas" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="3" pageNumber="316" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="refugus" status="sp. n.">
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<emphasis box="[270,436,523,544]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">Poachelas refugus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel box="[440,488,523,544]" pageId="3" pageNumber="316" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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paratype female: (5) eye region, anterior view; (6) epigyne, ventral view; (7) vulva, dorsal view. Scale bars = 0.2 mm.
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||
</paragraph>
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||
</caption>
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<paragraph blockId="3.[181,1142,613,1673]" box="[181,371,1387,1413]" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">
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||
<emphasis box="[181,247,1387,1413]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">Male.</emphasis>
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||
Unknown.
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="3.[181,1142,613,1673]" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">
|
||
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2009-12-05" collectorName="C. Haddad" country="South Africa" latitude="-27.0245" location="Pioneer" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="32.405766" municipality="Tembe Elephant Park" pageId="3" pageNumber="316" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1" stateProvince="KwaZulu-Natal" typeStatus="holotype">
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<typeStatus box="[181,269,1422,1444]" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">Holotype</typeStatus>
|
||
:
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<specimenCount box="[280,297,1422,1443]" pageId="3" pageNumber="316" type="female">♀</specimenCount>
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<collectingCountry box="[304,473,1422,1443]" name="South Africa" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">SOUTH AFRICA</collectingCountry>
|
||
:
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<emphasis box="[483,624,1422,1443]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">
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<collectingRegion box="[483,624,1422,1443]" country="South Africa" name="KwaZulu-Natal" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">KwaZulu-Natal</collectingRegion>
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||
</emphasis>
|
||
:
|
||
<collectingMunicipality box="[637,838,1422,1444]" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">Tembe Elephant Park</collectingMunicipality>
|
||
,
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||
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:039AE10AC253740D8A58FB8FFE77FE0F:8EEC06C7C251740A8B00FA7EFC26FA0D" box="[849,918,1422,1444]" country="South Africa" latitude="-27.0245" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="32.405766" municipality="Tembe Elephant Park" name="Pioneer" pageId="3" pageNumber="316" stateProvince="KwaZulu-Natal">Pioneer</location>
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||
grassland,
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||
<geoCoordinate box="[1024,1138,1422,1443]" degrees="27" direction="south" minutes="01.470" orientation="latitude" pageId="3" pageNumber="316" precision="1" value="-27.0245">27°01.470'S</geoCoordinate>
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||
:
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||
<geoCoordinate box="[181,296,1446,1468]" degrees="32" direction="east" minutes="24.346" orientation="longitude" pageId="3" pageNumber="316" precision="1" value="32.405766">32°24.346'E</geoCoordinate>
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||
, base of grass tussocks,
|
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<date box="[516,610,1445,1468]" pageId="3" pageNumber="316" value="2009-12-05">
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<collectingDate box="[516,610,1445,1468]" pageId="3" pageNumber="316" value="2009-12-05">5 xii.2009</collectingDate>
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||
</date>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectorName box="[619,715,1446,1468]" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">C. Haddad</collectorName>
|
||
(TMSA 23738).
|
||
</materialsCitation>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="3.[181,1142,613,1673]" box="[181,897,1476,1498]" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">
|
||
<typeStatus box="[181,264,1477,1498]" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">Paratype</typeStatus>
|
||
:
|
||
<specimenCount box="[273,290,1477,1498]" pageId="3" pageNumber="316" type="female">♀</specimenCount>
|
||
together with
|
||
<materialsCitation box="[421,893,1476,1498]" collectingDate="2009-12-05" collectorName="C. Haddad" country="South Africa" latitude="-27.0245" location="Pioneer" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="32.405766" municipality="Tembe Elephant Park" pageId="3" pageNumber="316" specimenCount="4" specimenCount-immature="4" stateProvince="KwaZulu-Natal" typeStatus="paratype">
|
||
<specimenCount box="[421,537,1476,1498]" pageId="3" pageNumber="316" type="immature">4 immatures</specimenCount>
|
||
: same data as holotype (TMSA 23739)
|
||
</materialsCitation>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="3.[181,1142,613,1673]" box="[181,817,1511,1538]" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">
|
||
Distribution: Known only from the
|
||
<typeStatus box="[580,628,1512,1538]" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">type</typeStatus>
|
||
locality (
|
||
<figureCitation box="[735,803,1511,1537]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="5.[181,214,898,920]" captionTargetBox="[217,1103,203,881]" captionTargetId="figure-263@5.[218,1103,201,882]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="Fig.8.Distribution of Poachelas refugus sp.n.(diamond) and published (opencircles) and new (solid circles) records of P. striatus Haddad & Lyle, 2008 in South Africa. Shaded area indicates previously known distribution of P. striatus and broken line its new distribution." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7913551" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7913551/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">Fig. 8</figureCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="3.[181,1142,613,1673]" lastBlockId="4.[144,1103,204,422]" lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="317" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">
|
||
Habitat and biology: Adults of this species are rare and initially only immatures were collected from the base of grass tussocks, and occasionally by sweeping, in pioneer grassland and sparse woodland habitats at the
|
||
<typeStatus box="[691,739,1615,1641]" pageId="3" pageNumber="316">type</typeStatus>
|
||
locality. Adults were collected from grass tussocks in early summer (December). Despite exhaustive sampling in the nearby Ndumo Game Reserve, approximately
|
||
<quantity box="[594,668,204,230]" metricMagnitude="4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.0" pageId="4" pageNumber="317" unit="km" value="10.0">10 km</quantity>
|
||
west of Tembe, no specimens of this new species have been collected there (
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="HADDAD, C. R. & DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN, A. S. & WESOLOWSKA, W." box="[582,800,235,262]" pageId="4" pageNumber="317" pagination="1 - 22" refId="ref3534" refString="HADDAD, C. R., DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN, A. S. & WESOLOWSKA, W. 2006. A checklist of the non-acarine arachnids (Chelicerata: Arachnida) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa. Koedoe 49: 1 - 22." type="journal article" year="2006">
|
||
Haddad
|
||
<emphasis box="[678,734,236,262]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="317">et al.</emphasis>
|
||
2006
|
||
</bibRefCitation>
|
||
), suggesting an association with the pioneer grassland and sparse woodland habitats that form a mosaic with sand forest endemic to Maputaland (
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="MATTHEWS, W. S. & VAN WYK, A. E. & VAN ROOYEN, N." box="[497,742,300,326]" pageId="4" pageNumber="317" pagination="151 - 167" refId="ref3710" refString="MATTHEWS, W. S., VAN WYK, A. E. & VAN ROOYEN, N. 1999. The vegetation of the Sileza Nature Reserve and neighbouring areas, South Africa, and its importance in conserving the woody grasslands of the Maputaland Centre of Endemism. Bothalia 29: 151 - 167." type="journal article" year="1999">
|
||
Matthews
|
||
<emphasis box="[618,668,300,326]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="317">et al</emphasis>
|
||
. 1999
|
||
</bibRefCitation>
|
||
,
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="MATTHEWS, W. S. & VAN WYK, A. E. & VAN ROOYEN, N. & BOTHA, G. A." box="[754,814,300,326]" pageId="4" pageNumber="317" pagination="573 - 594" refId="ref3768" refString="MATTHEWS, W. S., VAN WYK, A. E., VAN ROOYEN, N. & BOTHA, G. A. 2001. Vegetation of the Tembe Elephant Park, Maputaland, South Africa. South African Journal of Botany 67: 573 - 594." type="journal article" year="2001">2001</bibRefCitation>
|
||
). These habitats and soils are absent from Ndumo and could possibly explain the absence of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Haddad" authorityYear="2010" box="[885,995,332,358]" class="Arachnida" family="Trachelidae" genus="Poachelas" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="4" pageNumber="317" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="refugus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[885,995,332,358]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="317">P. refugus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
from this reserve. It may very well occur in Maputaland to the north and south of Tembe, where suitable habitat is available.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
</document> |