Pterotricha Kulczynski , 1903: 43.
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Pterotricha Kulczynski , 1903: 43. |
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Pterotricha Kulczynski, 1903: 43. View in CoL View at ENA
Bobineus Roewer 1955: 773.
Pterotricha : Dalmas 1921: 248; Levy 1995: 944; Murphy 2007: 122-123.
Type species.
Aranea lentiginosa C. L. Koch, 1837.
Comments.
The genus belongs to Gnaphosinae, and like all other members of this subfamily has a serrated keel on chelicera. It is easily distinguished from all other Gnaphosinae by long to very long spinnerets (Figs 1c, 4a, 6 a–b, 10 b–c, 11g), the male palp with squarrose tibial apophysis and a heavily sclerotized (non-membranous) and pointed “conductor”. Most of the species have a stylus on embolus (vs. lacking in all other genera).
Distribution.
The genus is known from Spain to South Africa, to western India, with a single, doubtful record of Pterotricha saga ( Dönitz & Strand, 1906) from Japan (most likely belonging to Callilepis Westring, 1874).
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