Illustrated Catalog of African brush-footed trapdoor spiders: type specimens from the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Barychelidae) Author Gonzalez-Filho, Hector M. O. Programa de pós-graduação em Ecologia, Evolução e Biodiversidade, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP 13506 - 900 (Brazil) gonzalezfilho@yahoo.com.br Author Colpani-Sartori, Maria Tereza Programa de pós-graduação em Ecologia, Evolução e Biodiversidade, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP 13506 - 900 (Brazil) m.sartori@unesp.br Author Henrard, Arnaud Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, B- 3080, Tervuren (Belgium) arnaud.henrard@africamuseum.be Author Guadanucci, José Paulo L. Departamento de Biodiversidade, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP 13506 - 900 (Brazil) jose.guadanucci@unesp.br Author Brescovit, Antonio D. Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP 05503 - 900 (Brazil) antonio.brescovit@butantan.gov.br text Zoosystema 2024 2024-10-15 46 26 671 695 https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2024v46a26.pdf journal article 304864 10.5252/zoosystema2024v46a26 4e4569e8-ec6f-4c29-bd10-7a907714246c 1638-9387 13938650 35C4AA2A-AA1A-4A9B-A5AE-648BEC1CA63E Genus Cyphonisia Simon, 1889 ( Figs 2-9 ) Cyphonisia Simon, 1889: 410 . 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 ; 3D ; 6D ; 7D ) and by the presence of posterior median spinnerets ( Figs 2F ; 3F ; 5B ; 6E ; 7F ). Males resemble Pisenor by the tibial apophysis composed of two spurs with curved spines ( Figs 4F ; 5F ; 8F ), 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 G-J), and by the cymbium of the male not projected, except in C. kissi ( Benoit, 1966 ) ( Fig. 5 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 .