Stephanopis erinacea Karsch, 1878

Machado, Miguel, Teixeira, Renato Augusto & Milledge, Graham A., 2019, On the Australian Bark Crab Spider Genus Stephanopis: Taxonomic Review and Description of Seven New Species (Araneae: Thomisidae: Stephanopinae), Records of the Australian Museum 71 (6), pp. 217-276 : 248-249

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3853/j.2201-4349.71.2019.1698
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scientific name	Stephanopis erinacea Karsch, 1878
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Stephanopis erinacea Karsch, 1878 View in CoL

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Stephanopis erinacea Karsch, 1878: 810 View in CoL .

Type material material. Holotype ♀, ZMB, Fiji, [17°42'S 178°03'E], pinned in the dry collection. No other material examined. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. The female of S. erinacea resembles that of S. fissifrons in the shape of its epigynal plate with depressed atrium ( Fig. 23C View Figure 23 ), and by its trapezoid opisthosoma. However, females of S. erinacea can be distinguished by the long and spiniform setae covering their entire body ( Fig. 23A and B View Figure 23 ) and the CO hidden by the lateral folds of the epigynal plate ( Fig. 23C View Figure 23 ).

Description. Female (ZMB 1878): Both anterior and posterior eye rows recurved, with the anterior eyes arranged in a strong curved line and the posterior ones almost in a straight row ( Fig. 23A and B View Figure 23 ). Prosoma orange and legs predominantly yellow, with just the extremities of each segment being brownish; tibiae I ventrally armed with five pairs of macrosetae ( Fig. 23B View Figure 23 ). Opisthosoma trapezoid, dark-yellow on the sides and venter but entirely dark-brown on the dorsum.

Measurements: eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.10, ALE 0.15, PME 0.10, PLE 0.12, AME–AME 0.10, AME–ALE 0.07, PME–PME 0.13, PME–PLE 0.11, MOQ length 0.37, width 0.20; leg formula: 1-2-4-3: leg I—femur 3.32/ patella 0.93/ tibia 2.78/ metatarsus 1.32/ tarsus 0.87/ total 9.22; II—2.71/ 0.82/ 2.27/ 1.25/ 0.81/ 7.86; III—1.93/ 0.82/ 1.21/ 1.11/ 0.77/ 5.84; IV—2.53/ 1.02/ 1.29/ 0.97/ 0.63/ 6.44. Total body length 5.63; prosoma length 3.00, width 2.72; opisthosoma length 2.63; clypeus height 0.31; sternum length 1.26, width 1.12; gnathocoxae length 0.71, width 0.40; labium length 0.38, width 0.52.

Male: Unknown.

Distribution. Fiji ( Fig. 24 View Figure 24 ).