Iranattus Prószyński, 1992

Figs 2 – 7, 8 – 13, 14 – 19, 20 – 23, 24 – 29, 30 – 33, 34–41

Iranattus Prószyński, 1992: 97 – 98, f. 35 – 40.

Monomotapa Wesołowska, 2000: 159, f. 42–46 (synonymized by Prószyński, 2017: 36.).

Type species.

Iranattus rectangularis Prószyński, 1992 .

Species included.

Iranattus principalis (Wesołowska, 2000); Iranattus rectangularis Prószyński, 1992 .

Diagnosis.

The remarkably long third legs of Iranattus (Figs 15, 18, 30, 32) and scoop-shaped cymbial apophysis (Fig. 4) differentiate it from all other plexippines. The very robust carapace, bulging outward at the PLE and bearing the PLEs on tubercles, is unusual but shared also with Afrobeata Caporiacco, 1941, and Vailimia Kammerer, 2006 . Vailimia especially might be confused with Iranattus, as they share erect hairs on the carapace (see Figs 34, 38, 41) and a compact crouch stance, but, besides the cymbial apophysis and long third legs, Iranattus also has a shorter embolus lacking membrane (membrane-accompanied long embolus in Vailimia), a short RTA (long and curved in Vailimia), and two distinct deep conical ECPs (absent in Vailimia). From Afrobeata, Iranattus differs in having longer third legs, a cymbial apophysis (lacking in Afrobeata), a shorter embolus (longer in Afrobeata), a simple short RTA (bifurcated in Afrobeata), shorter copulatory ducts (long in Afrobeata), and deep conical ECPs (shallow in Afrobeata). Some other plexippines have cymbial apophyses ( Plexippoides Prószyński, 1984; Epeus Peckham & Peckham, 1886; and Erasinus Simon, 1899), but their apophyses are different in shape — in Iranattus, a long, broad blade with a rounded tip, concave in front so as to form a scoop; in Plexippoides, sharply pointed, for example.