Poecilochroa taborensis Levy, 1999

Figs 44–46

Poecilochroa taborensis Levy, 1999b: 436, figs 17, 18, Ψ from Mt. Tabor, Israel.

Hitherto unknown mate: Adult male from Devira, Israel, leg. Yoni Gavish, July 22, 2008 on Lycium (HUJ15560).

Description. Relatively small. Colouration of carapace and legs yellow, opisthosoma pinkish (in alcohol) bearing a large dark scutum. Dark AME touching ALE; PME rectangular shaped and a little larger than AME; eyes of posterior row strongly procurved in dorsal view. Labium longer than wide. Sternum oval. Chelicerae without teeth, barely with a low keel.

Male. Measurements (1ɗ): total length 3.0; carapace length 1.4, width 1.0, index 1.4; labial index 1.39; clypeal index 0.5; MOQ index 5.19; legs length: I 2.8, II 2.4, III 2.2, IV 3.0; patella-tibia index 0.78.

Palpus. Small. Whitish, fleshy conductor partly envelopes brown cylindrical, slightly sinous embolus (Figs 44, 45). Large apically distended tibial apophysis ends with spur-like ectal projection (Fig. 45).

Female. Described by Levy (1999b); an illustration of a fresh epigynum of a female from Lakhish is here added (Fig. 46).

Diagnosis. The shape of the male palpal conductor, embolus and the peculiar tip of the tibial apophysis separate P. taborensis distinctly from all other Poecilochroa species.

Distribution. Israel. Records: Mt. Tabor, Lakhish, Devira.