Ozyptila furcula L. Koch, 1882

Bosmans & Van Keer, 2012, On the spider species described by L. Koch in 1882 from the Balearic Islands (Araneae), Arachnologische Mitteilungen 43 (1), pp. 5-16 : 11

Ozyptila furcula L. Koch, 1882 ( Figs 24-26 )

Ozyptila furcula L. Koch, 1882 : 648, pl. 21, fig. 23.

Ozyptila bicuspis Simon, 1932 : 873, figs 1186-1187, 1208; new synonymy.

Type material

Holotype male of Ozyptila furcula from Spain, Baleares, Mallorca, Ses Prat de San Jordi , end of April, Schaufuss leg.; not examined, unavailable in ZMB .

Comparative material examined

SPAIN. Jaen: Ribera Baja (N 37°26’58’’ E 3°50’5’’), 870m, 1 male, litter in Populus forest, 6.IV.1997, R. Bosmans leg. ( CRB) .

Comments

The type material of this species is not available, but KOCH ’s figure 21 ( 1882) allows a positive identification with respect to the tegular apophysis of specimens collected by us in Spain and North Africa. The tegulum has an oblique banana-shaped tegular apophysis with two postero-median concavities (compare Figs 24 and 25 ). Such an apophysis exists in three Ozyptila species occurring in this region: O. pauxilla Simon, 1870 , O. perplexa Simon, 1875 and O. bicuspis Simon, 1932 . Koch’s species also has two postero-median incisions, and these are absent in O. pauxilla and O. perplexa . We consider O. furcula and O. biscuspis the same species and O. bicuspis Simon, 1932 becomes a junior synonym of O. furcula L. Koch, 1882 . Ozyptila pauxilla and O. perplexa will be redescribed in a separate paper.

Distribution

The species is currently known from the south of France and from Spain.

Figures

Figs. 24 - 38. Figs. 24 - 26: Ozyptila furcula L. Koch, 1882. 24. Male palp of Ozyptila furcula in KOCH (1882); 25. Male palp, ventral view; 26. Idem, lateral view. Figs. 27 - 28. Haplo- drassus parvicorpus (Roewer, 1951). 27. Male palp of Drassus parvulus in KOCH (1882). 28. Male palp of Haplodrassus parvicorpus, specimen from Tarifa. Figs. 29 - 35. Zelotes callidus (Simon, 1878). 29. Epigyne of Zelotes semirufus in KOCH (1882); 30. Epigyne of Zelotes callidus, specimen from Talavan; 31. Vulva; 32. Male palp of Zelotes callidus in SIMON (1914, fig. 298); 33. Male palp, detail; 34. Male palp, ventral view; 35. Male palp, lateral view; Fig. 36. Male palp of Zelotes plumiger L. Koch, 1882 in L. KOCH (1882). Figs. 37 - 38 Phlegra bresnieri (Lucas, 1846). 37. Male palp of Phlegra simoni in L. KOCH (1882); 38. Male palp of Phlegra bresnieri in METZNER (1999).