Hortipes penthesileia, 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-

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2000)256<0004:HAHGOT>2.0.CO;2

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03938717-FFB2-FFEB-FCFE-7930FD8FFC6A

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Felipe

scientific name

Hortipes penthesileia
status

sp. nov.

Hortipes penthesileia View in CoL , new species Figures 17h View Fig , 20a View Fig ; Map 1 View Map 1

TYPES: Female holotype: in litter, elev. 1860 m, Mulanje path, Lichenya Plateau, Mt. Mulanje, Malawi S16°00', E35°30' (16 November 1981; R. Jocque´) ( MRAC 156.605 View Materials ). Paratype: 1♀, 1 km E from hut on crossing of Madzeka path with small stream, Thuchila, Mt. Mulanje, Malawi S16°00', E35°30' (11 November 1981; R. Jocque´) ( MRAC) GoogleMaps .

ETYMOLOGY: The species’ epithet penthesileia is a noun in apposition referring to the legendary queen of the Amazons. The name

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DIAGNOSIS: Females can be recognized by the small, globular ST1, the subglobular stalked ST2 separated by almost half their diameter, and the outward, rectangular Uloop of the ID.

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE: Measurements. Total length 2.57; carapace 1.11 long, 0.86 wide; length of fe: I 0.89, II 0.95, III 0.78, IV 1.05. Leg spination. Fe: I rv 2; IV plt 0 rlt 0; ti: I, II vsp 6; mt: III plt 1 vt 0 rlt 1; IV plt 1 vt 1 rlt 1. Coloration. Carapace orange yellow, chelicerae, sternum, and legs yellow brown. Abdomen pale peach, no pattern. Genitalia. Vulva: first stretches of IDs fused into one weakly sclerotized entrance chamber with entrance toward posterior side, second part of ID with sclerotized wall, first making rectangular outward U­loop and then running in posterior direction and entering the small, globular ST1. A subglobular, stalked ST2 attached to ID at transition between thinwalled and sclerotized part (figs. 17h; 20a).

DISTRIBUTION: Mt. Mulanje, Malawi.

MRAC

Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Corinnidae

Genus

Hortipes

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