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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.95.745" ID-GBIF-Dataset="92a4774c-d633-4a91-bd30-e09a73d99c1b" ID-PMC="PMC3095129" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-95-1" ID-PubMed="21594067" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2011" ModsDocID="1313-2970-95-1" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 95" ModsDocTitle="A revision of the purse-web spider genus Calommata Lucas, 1837 (Araneae, Atypidae) in the Afrotropical Region" checkinTime="1451250458162" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Rene, Fourie, Charles R., Haddad &amp; Rudy, Jocque" docDate="2011" docId="143C6F59D02B8D2CA683DA5FBBD3A163" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 95: 1-28" docOrigin="ZooKeys 95" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.95.745" docTitle="Calommata megae Fourie, Haddad &amp; Jocque, sp. n." docType="treatment" docVersion="4" lastPageNumber="7" masterDocId="1D00FFA1E0168E70B668FFCCBF60BA32" masterDocTitle="A revision of the purse-web spider genus Calommata Lucas, 1837 (Araneae, Atypidae) in the Afrotropical Region" masterLastPageNumber="28" masterPageNumber="1" pageNumber="6" updateTime="1668169128144" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>A revision of the purse-web spider genus Calommata Lucas, 1837 (Araneae, Atypidae) in the Afrotropical Region</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Rene, Fourie</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Charles R., Haddad</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Rudy, Jocque</mods:namePart>
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<mods:date>2011</mods:date>
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<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:ED324676-F4FB-4F0D-816E-4670E7EE2577" authority="Fourie, Haddad &amp; Jocque" class="Arachnida" family="Atypidae" genus="Calommata" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Calommata megae" order="Araneae" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="megae">
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megae Fourie, Haddad &amp;
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="5" pageNumber="6">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
Figs 11253-55
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Type material. Holotype male.</paragraph>
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ZIMBABWE: Harare, Highlands [
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,
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="31.083334">31°05'E</geoCoordinate>
], 13.I.2003, on soil, by hand, M. Cumming (NCA 2004/362).
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Other material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">ZIMBABWE: 1imm.: same locality as holotype, 21.II.2000, in garden, M. Cumming (NCA 2004/1361).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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The male of this species is recognised by the conductor that narrows and makes a half twist before broadening distally, and the obliquely orientated embolus and conductor (Figs 53-55). This species shares with
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sp. n. the carapace that is subequal in length and width (longer than wide in the other four species).
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of the collector of the holotype, Meg Cumming, in recognition of her contributions to African arachnology, particularly in Zimbabwe.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Male holotype. Measurements: CL 2.00, CW 2.05, AL 2.95, AW 1.80, TL 7.00. Length of leg segments, and total: I 2.40 + 0.90 + 1.70 + 1.90 + 1.70 = 8.60; II 2.15 + 0.95 + 1.40 + 2.20 + 2.15 = 8.85; III 1.80 + 0.95 + 1.00 + 2.15 + 3.55 = 9.45; 2.35 + 1.10 + 1.28 + 2.50 + 4.35 = 11.58. Carapace index 0.98; patella-tibia index 1.30.</paragraph>
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Carapace and chelicerae brown in colour (Fig. 1). Carapace flat and robust. Median ocular tubercle raised, darker in colour.Chelicerae with a single row of small teeth, increasing in size from fang base to base of chelicerae, with a few denticles near base of chelicerae (Fig. 12). Sternum and coxae light brown, remainder of legs dark brown, fading to light yellow-brown at tarsi. Legs weakly covered with bristles; prolateral side of patellae, tibiae and metatarsi of legs
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covered with spinules (thicker and shorter than bristles). Abdomen dark brown, with an irregular brown scutum present anteriorly (Fig. 1). Palpal cymbium short with rounded distal margin; embolus and conductor orientated obliquely, pointing retrolaterally towards base of chelicerae; conductor narrow, making a half twist before broadening distally, with single small curved tooth on its dorsal surface distally; embolus short and straight, slightly curved near tip (Figs 53-55).
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Female. Unknown.</paragraph>
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53-55. Left palp of male
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sp. n. 53 prolateral view 54 ventral view 55 retrolateral view. Scale bars: 1mm.
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Known only from the type locality (Fig. 73).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Biology.</paragraph>
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Poorly known. The holotype male was collected in mid-summer on the soil surface. The second instar juvenile specimen was captured while ballooning and landing on the porch of a house (M. Cumming, pers. comm.). Amongst atypids, ballooning has previously been recorded in both
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and
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(Wiehle 1953 cited in
<bibRefCitation author="Pedersen, AA" journalOrPublisher="Molecular Ecology" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" pagination="1133 - 1142" title="Conservation genetics of peripheral populations of the mygalomorph spider Atypus affinis (Atypidae) in northern Europe." url="doi:10.1046/j.1365-294X.2001.01266.x" volume="10" year="2001">Pedersen and Loeschcke 2001</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Coyle, FA" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Arachnology" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" pagination="283 - 286" title="Aerial dispersal by mygalomorph spiderlings (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)." volume="11" year="1983">Coyle 1983</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Coyle, EA" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Arachnology" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" pagination="291 - 296" title="Ballooning mygalomorphs: estimates of the masses of Sphodros and Ummidia ballooners (Araneae: Atypidae, Ctenizidae)." volume="13" year="1985">Coyle et al. 1985</bibRefCitation>
).
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