Coenoptychus mutillicus ( Haddad, 2004 ) Paul & Sankaran & Sebastian & Joseph, 2018

Paul, Jimmy, Sankaran, Pradeep M., Sebastian, Pothalil A. & Joseph, Mathew M., 2018, A review of the wasp mimicking spider genus Coenoptychus Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae), Zootaxa 4413 (1), pp. 163-172 : 170

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4413.1.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EED9AB62-B396-41F6-B294-AE965BA055B0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5979932

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B087C4-FF8D-5513-96A4-47CCFC44F8BD

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Coenoptychus mutillicus ( Haddad, 2004 )
status

comb. nov.

Coenoptychus mutillicus ( Haddad, 2004) View in CoL comb. nov.

Graptartia mutillica Haddad, 2004: 76 View in CoL , figs 2, 5, 8, 11, 13, 24‒28 (Holotype ♀: SOUTH AFRICA: Deelhoek farm, Bloemfontein district, 28°54'S, 26°07'E, 1250 m, leg. C.R. Haddad, under old oil drum, 12.I.2001, NMBA 9451 View Materials —not examined). GoogleMaps

Justification for transfer. Judging from the original description and illustrations of G. mutillica ( Haddad, 2004) View in CoL , this species would be better placed in Coenoptychus View in CoL than in Graptartia View in CoL : male smaller and less robust than female, recurved PER, abdomen and legs with feathery setae, promargin of chelicerae with three teeth, round spermathecae II and reniform spermathecae I, lack of palpal RTA, and spiralled embolus with 2.5 turns ( Haddad 2004: figs 2, 8, 11, 13, 24‒28). All these indicate that this species is misplaced in Graptartia View in CoL and its transfer to Coenoptychus View in CoL is hereby proposed.

Distribution. Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Tanzania ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Corinnidae

Genus

Coenoptychus

Loc

Coenoptychus mutillicus ( Haddad, 2004 )

Paul, Jimmy, Sankaran, Pradeep M., Sebastian, Pothalil A. & Joseph, Mathew M. 2018
2018
Loc

Graptartia mutillica

Haddad, 2004 : 76
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