Cetonana Strand, 1929

Lyle, Robin & Haddad, Charles R., 2010, A revision of the tracheline sac spider genus Cetonana Strand, 1929 in the Afrotropical Region, with descriptions of two new genera (Araneae Corinnidae), African Invertebrates 51 (2), pp. 321-321 : 327

Genus Cetonana Strand, 1929

Ceto Simon, 1874: 238 ; Grimm 1986: 10; Paik 1991: 263; Dippenaar­Schoeman & Jocqué 1997: 128.

Cetonana Strand, 1929 (replacement name); Platnick & Ewing 1995: 2; Platnick 2010.

Cetonana Mello­Leitão, 1941 : Brignoli 1983: 556 [lapsus!].

Type species: Drassus laticeps Canestrini, 1868 .

Diagnosis (after Grimm 1986 and Bosselaers et al. 2009): Cetonana can be recognised by the following combination of characters: the presence of ventral leg cusps on metatarsi and tarsi I and II of both sexes (absent from tibiae of both sexes); scopulate metatarsi and tarsi I and II of females comprising erectile bristles; the absence of leg spines; flat carapace; AME that are clearly larger than the other eyes; PME that are smaller than the PLE; female epigyne with posterior copulatory openings; and male palp with strongly ventrally curved cymbium and a tegulum occupying only part of the ventral side of the cymbium. Species included: C. laticeps , C. lineolata Mello­Leitão, 1941 , C. orientalis (Schenkel, 1936) , C. petrunkevitchi Mello­Leitão, 1945 and C. setosa (Simon, 1897) .

Afrotropical species transferred to other genera: Afroceto coenosa (Simon, 1897) comb. n.; A. martini (Simon, 1897) comb. n. (= C. curvipes ( Tucker, 1920) syn. n., = C. tridentata ( Lessert, 1923) syn. n., = C. simoni ( Lawrence, 1942) syn. n.).

Afrotropical species considered nomen dubium: C. aculifera ( Strand, 1916) .