Apochinomma dolosum Simon, 1897

Fig. 1

Apochinomma dolosum Simon, 1897a: 261 (♀); Majumder & Tikader, 1991: 158, figs 334–337 (♀).

Type material. Syntypes 2♀ from INDIA: Uttarakhand: Dehradun (=Dehra-Dun) (30°18’N, 78°01’E; 656 m a.s.l.), leg. M.A. Smythies, date unknown, MNHN 13446, examined based on photographs .

Diagnosis. Females of A. dolosum are similar to the females of A. malkini Haddad, 2013, as both have copulatory openings at the midpoint of the epigyne, but can be separated from the latter by obliquely oriented rims of the copulatory openings (vs. comma-shaped in A. malkini) (compare Fig. 1B with Haddad 2013: fig. 12C).

Description. For description of the female, see Simon (1897a).

Supplementary description. Female. Dorsal scutum of opisthosoma small, restricted anteriorly (Fig. 1A). Epigyne (Fig. 1B): epigynal plate triangular, with W-shaped posterior margin. Copulatory openings large, with obliquely orientated lateral rims.

Male. Unknown.

Remarks. Apochinomma dolosum is distinct from A. nitidum, as it has oblique lateral rims of copulatory openings, which are C-shaped in A. nitidum (compare Fig. 1B with Fig. 3H–I, K), and thus it could not be a synonym of A. nitidum, as doubted by Deeleman-Reinhold (2001).