Cyphonisia Simon, 1889

Gonzalez-Filho, Hector M. O., Colpani-Sartori, Maria Tereza, Henrard, Arnaud, Guadanucci, José Paulo L. & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2024, Illustrated Catalog of African brush-footed trapdoor spiders: type specimens from the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Barychelidae), Zoosystema 46 (26), pp. 671-695 : 673

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Genus Cyphonisia Simon, 1889 View in CoL

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Cyphonisia Simon, 1889: 410 View in CoL .

TYPE SPECIES. — Cyphonisia obesa Simon, 1889 .

DIAGNOSIS. — Cyphonisia differs from Pisenor Simon, 1889 by the eyes group square-shaped, where the lateral anterior eyes separated by twice their size ( Figs 2D View FIG ; 3D View FIG ; 6D View FIG ; 7D View FIG ) and by the presence of posterior median spinnerets ( Figs 2F View FIG ; 3F View FIG ; 5B View FIG ; 6E View FIG ; 7F View FIG ). Males resemble Pisenor by the tibial apophysis composed of two spurs with curved spines ( Figs 4F View FIG ; 5F View FIG ; 8F View FIG ), but can be differentiated by the male palpal bulb with a long thin embolus, twice the length of subtegulum, except in C. itombwensis Benoit, 1966 ( Fig. 4 View FIG G-J), and by the cymbium of the male not projected, except in C. kissi ( Benoit, 1966) ( Fig. 5 View FIG C-E).

INCLUDED SPECIES. — Cyphonisia affinitata Strand, 1907 ; C. annulata Benoit, 1966 ; C. itombwensis Benoit, 1966 ; C. kissi ( Benoit, 1966) ; C. maculata ( Roewer, 1953) ; C. maculipes Strand, 1906 ; C. manicata Simon, 1907 ; C. nesiote s Simon, 1907; C. nigella ( Simon, 1889) ; C. obesa Simon, 1889 ; C. rastellata Strand, 1907 ; C. soleata Thorell, 1899 ; Cyphonisia straba Benoit, 1966 .

DISTRIBUTION. — Cameroon, Central Africa, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Ghana, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Tanzania.