Hortipes aelurisiepae, 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-FFCE-FF96-FF3E-7968FCE4FC6A

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scientific name

Hortipes aelurisiepae
status

sp. nov.

Hortipes aelurisiepae View in CoL , new species Figures 17g View Fig , 18e View Fig ; Map 4 View Map 4

TYPES: Female holotype: humus in Gualiveni Forest , Inguavuma District, Natal, South Africa (October 1961; N. Leleup) ( MRAC 131.854 View Materials ) .

ETYMOLOGY: The species’ epithet is given in remembrance of the first author’s much loved cat Siep, which was run over by a truck when this species was being described. AιλoƲpos means cat in classical Greek.

DIAGNOSIS: Females can easily be recognized by the very large, isodiametric ST2 and by the bifurcate entrance chamber of the vulva equipped with long, blind­ending lateral pockets.

2.48; carapace 1.05 long, 0.97 wide; length of fe: I 0.89, II 0.95, III 0.76, IV 1.13. Leg spination. Fe: I rv 2; IV plt 0 rlt 0; ti: I, II vsp 6; mt: III plt 0 vt 0 rlt 0; IV plt 0–1 vt 1 rlt 0. Coloration. Carapace golden yellow, lighter at the fovea. Chelicerae, legs and sternum yellow. Abdomen pale yellow, no pattern. Genitalia. Vulva: first stretches of IDs fused into one weakly sclerotized, deeply bifurcated entrance chamber with entrance toward posterior side. Entrance chamber with two long, blind­ending lateral pockets. At its anterior end, entrance chamber merges into two sclerotized, inward­pointing tips attached to second, normally sclerotized part of ID that first makes small circular loop in frontal direction, followed by 540° corkscrew turn in caudal direction, connected to the small, globular ST1. The very large, sessile, isodiametric ST2 attached with its posterior end to sclerotized tip of entrance chamber (figs. 17g; 18e).

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Corinnidae

Genus

Hortipes

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