Hamataliwa Keyserling, 1887

Zhang, Jun-Xia, Zhu, Ming-Sheng & Song, Da-Xiang, 2005, Revision of the spider genus Hamataliwa Keyserling from China (Araneae: Oxyopidae), Zootaxa 1017 (1017), pp. 1-17 : 3

Hamataliwa Keyserling, 1887

Hamataliwa Keyserling 1887: 458 . — Brady 1964: 496; 1970: 78.

Oxyopeidon O. Pickard­ Cambridge 1894: 139.

Type species. Hamataliwa grisea Keyserling, 1887 , by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Hamataliwa can be distinguished from the closely related genus Oxyopes by the following characters: female epigynum with a shallow median depression surrounded by a semicircular or U­shaped, heavily sclerotized rim ( Figs. 2, 7, 12, 17, 22); copulatory ducts usually short, spermathecae round or oval ( Figs. 3, 8, 13, 18, 23); embolus of male palp forming a characteristic twist or loop near the base; edge of cymbium with a basal outgrowth, finger­like in lateral view ( Figs. 4–5, 9–10, 14–15, 19–20, 24–25). Copulatory ducts and spermathecae are always wrapped with glue­like materials after copulation ( Figs. 3, 8, 13), which is not detected in Oxyopes .

Description. See general characteristics of the genus described by Brady (1964).