Hortipes calliblepharus, 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 calliblepharus , new species Figures 30e, f ; Map 5

TYPES: Male holotype: alongside dry river bed in mountainous savannah, 2300 m, Mt. Cameroon, Cameroon (March 1981; R. Bosmans) ( MRAC 207.364 ). Paratypes: 16, one juvenile in open mountainous rain forest with maccabo ( Xanthosoma poepigii ) fields, 1400 m, Mt. Cameroon, Cameroon (March 1981; R. Bosmans) ( MRAC) .

ETYMOLOGY: The species’ epithet is a latinization of the ancient Greek καλλι­ βλe­ φαpos, ‘‘with beautiful eyelashes.’’ This refers to the border of long setae on the male palpal cymbium.

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male palpal ti, provided with a short, sharp, outward­directed tip, and by the smoothly curved MA of which the thick and thin part gradually merge.

MALE: Measurements. Total length 2.19; carapace 1.19 long, 0.92 wide; length of fe: I 0.95, II 1.03, III 0.84, IV 1.08. Leg spination. Fe: I rv 2; IV plt 0 rlt 0; ti: I, II vsp 6; mt: III plt 1 vt 1 rlt 1; IV plt 1 vt 2 rlt 1. Coloration. Carapace golden brown. Sternum, chelicerae, and legs yellow brown. Abdomen yellow brown, no pattern. Palp. No femoral apophysis (fig. 30e, f). Tibia with large, broad RTA, prolaterally concave, and with short, sharp, outward­curved tip; cymbium with large retrolateral bend with regular series of long setae; sperm duct with wide basal part and thin distal part with deep turn; MA with long, thick base without appendages, gradually tapered into slender distal part, smoothly curved around the basal part of the embolus; embolus long, whiplike, looped over more than 540°.

FEMALE: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: Mt. Cameroon, Cameroon, elev. 1400–2300 m.

Figures

Map 5. Distribution of Hortipes species in Cameroon. Hortipes abucoletus *, H. alderweireldti, H. anansiodatus •, H. architelones Δ, H. bosmansi v, H. calliblepharus ^, H. chrysothemis n, H. depravator, H. fortipes., H. hormigricola V, H. puylaerti D, H. robertus h, and H. sceptrum O.

Fig. 30. a, b. Hortipes alderweireldti, new species, male left palp, ventral and retrolateral views. c, d. Hortipes fortipes, new species, male left palp, ventral and retrolateral views. e, f. Hortipes calliblepharus, new species, male left palp, ventral and retrolateral views. Scale line: 0.25 mm.