Hortipes baerti, BOSSELAERS & JOCQUÉ, 2000

BOSSELAERS, JAN & JOCQUÉ, RUDY, 2000, Hortipes, A Huge Genus Of Tiny Afrotropical Spiders (Araneae, Liocranidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000 (256), pp. 4-4 : 4-

Hortipes baerti , new species Figure 28a, b ; Map 1

TYPES: Male holotype in pitfall trap in forest, Bossematié Classified Forest, Apouesso, Ivory Coast (January 29, 1995; R. Jocqué and K. Tanoh) ( MRAC 204.228 ) .

ETYMOLOGY: The species is named in hon­ or of Dr. Léon Baert.

DIAGNOSIS: Males of H. baerti are easily recognized by the male palp with a very large RTA provided with four prongs: two short ones at the base in the middle, one directed backward and one directed forward.

MALE: Measurements. Total length 2.43; carapace 1.22 long, 0.97 wide; length of fe: I 0.97, II 1.05, III 0.81, IV 1.22. Leg spination. Fe: I rv 2; IV plt 1 rlt 1; ti: I, II vsp 6; mt: III plt 1 vt 1 rlt 0; IV plt 1 vt 2 rlt 1. Coloration. Carapace light olive brown, pal­ er in the cephalic region. Chelicerae, sternum, and legs pale yellow. Abdomen pale yellow, no pattern. Palp. Tibia with large, complex RTA; long frontal prong broad, retrolaterally concave, with denticle in middle of its ventral margin, and distal tip curved outward; posterior prong narrow, retrolaterally concave, curved outward at tip; central prongs near base short, inferior one triangular, superior one slightly more elongate; cym­

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lateral swelling at base of embolus; sperm duct with wide basal part and thin distal part with short, deep turn; MA with short, thick

embolus long, whiplike, looped over more than 540° (fig. 28a, b).

FEMALE: Unknown.

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Figures

Map 1. Distribution of Hortipes species described in this publication. Hortipes baerti n, H. centralis h, H. hesperoecius O, H. machaeropolion D, H. orchatocnemis ^, H. oronesiotes Δ, H. penthesileia v, H. silvarum •, H. tarachodes V, H. terminator, and H. zombaensis.. Rectangles enclose regions (hatched) where high numbers of Hortipes species were found (number of species in parentheses). See detailed maps 2–5.

Fig. 28. a, b. Hortipes baerti, new species, male left palp, ventral and retrolateral views. c. Hortipes abucoletus, new species, epigyne. d–f. Hortipes robertus, new species. d, e. Male left palp, ventral and retrolateral views. f. Epigyne. Scale line: 0.25 mm.