Coenoptychus tropicalis ( Haddad, 2004 ) Paul & Sankaran & Sebastian & Joseph, 2018

Paul, Jimmy, Sankaran, Pradeep M., Sebastian, Pothalil A. & Joseph, Mathew M., 2018, A review of the wasp mimicking spider genus Coenoptychus Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae), Zootaxa 4413 (1), pp. 163-172 : 170-171

Coenoptychus tropicalis ( Haddad, 2004) comb. nov.

Graptartia tropicalis Haddad, 2004: 78 , figs 3, 6, 9, 12, 14‒16, 29‒33 (Holotype ♀: TANZANIA: Kyela (garden), leg. R. Jocqué, 9.XI.1991, MRAC 173236 —not examined).

Justification for transfer. The original description and illustrations of G. tropicalis ( Haddad, 2004) indicate that the diagnostic features of the species match the somatic and genitalic features of Coenoptychus : male smaller and less robust than female, recurved PER, abdomen and legs with feathery setae, promargin of chelicerae with three teeth, subtriangular spermathecae I and reniform spermathecae I, lack of RTA in the male palp, and spiralled embolus with two turns ( Haddad 2004: figs 3, 9, 12, 14, 29‒33). Based on these characters, we propose the transfer of this species to Coenoptychus .

Distribution. Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Tanzania ( Fig. 5 ).

Note. The transfer of both G. mutillica and G. tropicalis to Coenoptychus is supported by the cladistic analysis of Afrotropical Castianeirinae by Haddad (2013), wherein these two species were in a clade paraphyletic to Graptartia granulosa Simon, 1896 . He suggested that these two species may belong to Coenoptychus , but did not formally transfer them.

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FIGURE 5. Distribution records of Coenoptychus pulcher (circles), C. mutillicus (squares) and C. tropicalis (triangles): type localities (black), new records (red), other published records (white).