Spermophora mau, Bernhard A. Huber & Charles M. Warui, 2012

Bernhard A. Huber & Charles M. Warui, 2012, East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 29 (29), pp. 1-44 : 27-29

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2012.29

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6181445

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4717BA27-3070-47BB-A588-EB037A4F6294

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Spermophora mau
status

sp. nov.

Spermophora mau View in CoL sp. nov.

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Figs 9 View Figs 1 - 15. — 1 , 40-44 View Figs 28 - 49. — 28 - 31 , 87-91 View Figs 87 - 91

Spermophora Ken View in CoL 39: Dimitrov, Astrin & Huber 2012 (DNA sequence data).

Diagnosis

Distinguished from very similar S. maathaiae sp. nov. by shape of female epigynal scape (longer; tip pointed; Fig. 90 View Figs 87 - 91 ) and by details of procursus tip (slightly different shapes of sclerites; Figs 87, 88 View Figs 87 - 91 ). From other species by male cheliceral armature (shapes of frontal apophyses; Fig. 89 View Figs 87 - 91 ) and by pointed tip of female epigynal scape.

Etymology

The species name is derived from the type locality; noun in apposition.

Type material

Holotype

♂, in ZFMK ( Ar 8747 ) GoogleMaps .

Paratypes

3 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀, in ZFMK (2 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀: Ar 8748 ) GoogleMaps and NMKE (1 ♂, 1 ♀) GoogleMaps .

Type locality

KENYA, Rift Valley, Mau Escarpment near Elburgon   GoogleMaps (0°25.3’S, 35°47.3’E), 2930 m a.s.l., 5 Feb. 2010 (B.A. Huber).

Other material examined

KENYA: Rift Valley: 2 ♀♀, 2 juvs. in pure ethanol, in ZFMK ( Ken 145 ), Mau Escarpment near Elburgon , same data as types above GoogleMaps .

Description

Male (holotype)

MEASUREMENTS. Total body length 3.6, carapace width 1.3. Leg 1: 20.4 (5.2 + 0.5 + 5.1 + 6.9 + 2.7), tibia 2: 3.3, tibia 3: 2.6, tibia 4: 3.4; tibia 1 L/d: 41. Distance PME-PME 175 µm, diameter PME 125 µm, distance PME-ALE 55 µm, no AME.

COLOR. Prosoma ochre-yellow with large lateral black marks and Y-mark behind ocular area, ocular area laterally darkened, clypeus with pair of darker smudges below eye triads, sternum monochromous black, legs ochre-yellow, with darker rings on femora (subdistally) and tibiae (proximally, subdistally), abdomen grey with distinctive black pattern dorsally and laterally, ventrally mostly black.

BODY. Habitus as in Figs 40 and 41 View Figs 28 - 49. — 28 - 31 ; ocular area elevated, with pair of horns between triads ( Fig. 44 View Figs 28 - 49. — 28 - 31 ); carapace only anteriorly with shallow thoracic furrow; clypeus unmodified. Chelicerae as in Fig. 89 View Figs 87 - 91 , each frontal apophysis forming a cup-shaped depression, without modified hairs. Sternum wider than long (0.94/0.72), unmodified.

PALPS. As in Figs 87 and 88 View Figs 87 - 91 , coxa with retrolatero-ventral apophysis, trochanter with retrolateral apophysis, femur barely modified (except dorsal apophysis proximally), procursus with ventral flap and several complex distal elements that appear hinged to proximal part, distinctive spine-like process visible in retrolateral view, bulb with three cone-shaped projections and long embolus.

LEGS. Without spines and curved hairs, few vertical hairs; retrolateral trichobothrium on tibia 1 at 10%; prolateral trichobothrium absent on tibia 1, present on other tibiae; tarsus 1 with>30 pseudosegments, distinct distally.

VARIATION. Tibia 1 in 3 other males: 4.8, 4.9, 5.3.

Female

In general similar to male but triads closer together (distance PME-PME 135 µm), without horns. Tibia 1 in 6 females: 4.2-4.4. Epigynum a simple plate with long posterior scape ending in scorpion-tail-like tip ( Fig. 90 View Figs 87 - 91 ); internal genitalia as in Fig. 91 View Figs 87 - 91 .

Distribution

Known from type locality only ( Fig. 27 View Figs 24 - 27 ).

ZFMK

Germany, Bonn, Zoologische Forschungsinstitut und Museum "Alexander Koenig"

NMKE

Kenya, Nairobi, National Museum of Kenya

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Pholcidae

Genus

Spermophora

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