Pronophaea proxima (Lessert, 1923) comb. nov.

(Figs 31–32)

Remarks. The holotype male of Medmassa proxima is similar to male P. natalica in general morphology (Fig. 31), eye arrangement, leg spination, abdominal sclerotisation and general genitalic structure. The fine wirelike median apophysis, sickle-shaped conductor and short distal embolus of the male palp (Fig. 32) are consistent with a placement in Pronophaea .

The species identified by Bosselaers & Jocqué (2002) as M. proxima is, in fact, a new Pronophaea species closely related to P. proxima, but with a shorter and curved male palpal tibial apophysis (compare Fig. 32 with fig. 3I in Bosselaers & Jocqué 2002). This same new Pronophaea species was recently included in a cladistic analysis including many corinnid genera and was placed as sister to P. natalica (Haddad et al. 2009), which supports the transfer of M. proxima to Pronophaea .