Hexophthalma damarensis (Lawrence, 1928)

Figs 9, 19, 25

Sicarius damarensis Lawrence, 1928: 221 .

Sicarius damarensis – Newlands 1986: 47. — Lotz 2012: 4.

Hexophthalma damarensis – Magalhaes et al. 2017: 852.

Diagnosis

Female inner spermathecae unique, with short, bulbous, finger-like sacs that branch off the copulatory tube part, without reduced outer spermathecae (Fig. 9). Male embolus ending in a thin, pointed apex; thicker basal part of embolus with a hump on one side, slightly basal from median (Fig. 19); this is similar to in H. goanikontesensis sp. nov. except that the thinner apical part lacks a basal embolus keel and the hump on the side of the thicker part is more basal.

Material examined

Holotype NAMIBIA: ♀, Outjo [20°07′ S, 16°09′ E] (SAMC 7057).

Other material NAMIBIA: 1 ♂, Helio, 19°03′ S, 16°29′ E, 14 Feb.–23 Mar. 1987, E. Griffin leg. (NMNW 40160) ; 1 ♀, 1 imm., same data as for preceding but 8 Aug. 1987 – 27 Mar. 1988 (NMNW 40986); 1 ♂, same data as for preceding but 27 Mar.–4 May 1988 (NMNW 41135) .

Natural history

Hexophthalma damarensis have been collected in Savanna biomes using pitfall traps.

Distribution

Hexophthalma damarensis is distributed in the northern central part of Namibia (Fig. 25).